The biggest post-election news story is turning out to be the Hostess bankruptcy drama. Before an agreement on mediation Monday prevented the shutdown of operations, most news stories lead with the death of the Twinkies, or the “Twinkie Apocalypse,” even though the brand will most likely survive. The real story is, of course, jobs and manufacturing.

While pundits duked it out over who was to blame for the potential loss of jobs–300 at a Hostess plant in Sacramento alone–California might be missing the real story also: a widening economic fault splitting the state in two.

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