Difference in Santa Cruz is everywhere. Theirs was the only successful rebellion in California against the Europeans. T he City declared itself a Freeport for Nicaragua during the Sandinista rebellion. The Woman's Movement claimed this turf when it chased the Miss California pageant out of town. Peace activists stopped the US Navy from playing war games.
Hippies are common in town.
It's like a living museum of movements. O ften it gets so outrageously beautiful, with bold pieces of nature, in the ocean, the sky and the mountains colliding and mixing, that people, all types together, come out to gawk and glow in it. Ignoble Past A t one time all this magnificence inspired a gluttony. The redwood forests were raped in a 40 year frenzy. Businesses popped up that specialized in destroying the land.