Posted on 12/17/2008 5:33:08 PM PST by Lorianne
At the same moment, on the same busy day, the people of unincorporated East Los Angeles celebrated the completion of an "independencia" petition drive for cityhood and the annual pilgrimage of the Miracle of the Bleeding Street Vendor.
After crunching some census numbers with my Times colleague Doug Smith, I found out that East Los Angeles had become the most ethnically homogenous place in Southern California. It seemed to be the tragic underside to the happier news we reported last week -- that Southern California suburbs were more racially integrated than ever before.
In the center of Southern California, the numbers showed an opposite reality, with a bigger slice of the metropolis a de facto segregated Latino barrio than in any time in history.
After studying Census Bureau surveys from 2005 to 2007, Doug and I concluded that about 1 million people live in Los Angeles County communities that are 90% or more Latino. And more than 800,000 of them are in one contiguous area that stretches from MacArthur Park to Pico Rivera and from the fringes of downtown's Garment District to South Gate.
East Los Angeles, it turns out, had become 98% Latino. The community lost a quarter of the tiny white population it had in 2000.
The little liberal in my head told me to be outraged. After all, the numbers seemed to me to confirm a central, underlying injustice of Los Angeles -- that the separation of ethnic groups lives on in our 21st century city.
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Dear Jesus, when will the Tribune creditors take over the bankrupt TribuneCo and liquidate the LATimes? The sooner this paper is shut down the better.
Well damn, you mean bird of a feather like to flock together? Wow, who'd a thunk
well, places like Huntington Park are 98% illegal.....you can guess which is a better part of town.
Let me see if I understand this:
1. Millions of non-English-speaking illegals flock into liberal Los Angeles, a sanctuary city.
2. To help themselves get by, they move near other Spanish speakers from their old villages, where they can shop in stores that carry the foods they prefer, and where the help speaks Spanish.
3. Their self-appointed spokesperson becomes enraged and claims racial discrimination because so few white people live alongside them.
Yes, LA Times, white flight actually exists. Most of the Eastern European and Jewish families moved to the west side decades ago.
Speaking of budget cuts...
Argh ping
So are we supposed to have politically correct outrage that there are Mexican-Americans in East LA?
“well, places like Huntington Park are 98% illegal”
Sad, my aunt used to have a beautiful home there.
Here, the sewage runs through pipes underground rather than the gutter. Also, electricity is provided to every home in a safe, non-haphazard and non-stolen manner. The street names are mostly English. But other than that, it is simply several square miles of Mexico magically transported to Southern California.
The saddest part is when I talk to an older person who grew up in a now non-American area. They get sad when they talk about what used to be, and what has been lost.
Agreed. I wish this toilet tissue, the LA Times, would just hurry up and die.
How dare whites and blacks not want to live in East L.A?? In fact, how dare they not want to live in Tijuana?? Racism, I tell ya.
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