Capitol since the 1930s despite the fact that, as The Times Editorial Board put it, “his image is a painful reminder to many Native Americans of Spanish colonization and conversion.” Serra’s statue needs to go (although some of our readers disagree with that), but whose likeness should represent a state of high alpine mountain ranges and barren deserts, of anti-tax revolts and progressive policy experimentation - in other words, a state of extremes and everything in between - is a more complicated matter. This might be among the reasons it’s so hard to settle on a replacement for Father Junípero Serra, whose statue has remained in the U.S.
No one comes to my mind immediately, but I can imagine it’s much easier for states with fewer than 800,000 residents to come up with two examples of the quintessential Alaskan or Vermonter than for 40 million-strong California to settle on a pair historical figures to represent them in the U.S. Think of two people who best represent, say, Wyoming.
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