If true, that speaks not to Didion's prescience but to the absurd provincialism of
certain urban elites, who only needed to drive south on the San Diego Freeway to discover that their views did not represent most of California, much less the whole country.
It's nice to think that perhaps led to
certain members of the Tinseltown
elite trailing the length and breadth of of the
Urban Dictionary for a translation of this endearing colloquialism.