Sacramento has long suffered from an identity crisis. Unsatisfied with its past reputation as a cow town, it dreams of being the next big American city. However, Sacramento slowly is realizing that you do not become great by being jealous of another’s greatness. 

Visiting Sacramento twenty years ago was a different experience than coming here today. Now the city has a better sense of who it is: a little bit of everything. Sacramento, as the famed quote from Walt Whitman declares, is large and contains multitudes. Its traditions and its youth, its black and white history and its vibrant murals, its grand Capitol building and its tent shelters for the unhoused—these are not contradictions. This is the city.

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