“””Looking at this video. it looks like LA was a nice place, what happened?”””
JFK won the 1960 election.
“During the 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles was a bastion of Anglo Protestantism, reflecting the values of Midwestern parishioners who had been carried to the Southland
on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Well into the 1970s, Protestant denominational leaders enjoyed comfortable, influential ties with the city‘s still-strong ―downtown business establishment, which itself was largely Protestant.
The Immigration Act of 1965, however, created the condition for a radically different religious future for the City of Angels-a future that would anoint Roman Catholicism as
the area‘s dominant religious group. Today Roman Catholicism is the single largest faith tradition in Los Angeles County, with 294 parishes and 3,631,368 adherents. Among
Christians, 71% are Catholics. Between 1980 and 1997, Roman Catholicism experienced a 36% growth.”
I don’t think Catholicism was the problem.
Sorry but wrong, large catholic influence in la, umm 21 missions ring a bell. Spanish influence...