“In LA and San Diego in the 1960s and 70s, it seemed to fade out as the years passed and immigration increased.”
It faded out because as the media got more liberal and supportive of the democrats, they were a key tool in trying to hide what actually was increasing along with their voting numbers, legal or not. And a lot of that is based upon the definition of immigration, legal or not.
Between 1/3 and 1/2 of all farmworkers in America reside in California, or roughly 500,000 - 800,000 farmworkers. Approximately 75% of California’s farmworkers are undocumented; 83% in Santa Cruz County. And that’s at the other end of the state.
Another example of the illegals getting ignored is East L.A. With 118,964 people, East Los Angeles is the 52nd most populated city in the state of California out of 1,571 cities. In L.A. County, alone, there are 951K undocumented with the Latin side of it at 721K. The most illegals coming in are from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. And as jobs disappear in the basin due to their lack of education and paperwork, they will migrate north into the valley for farm work. They have for eighty years and more. It hasn’t gone away, it just got organized.
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I meant running into proud Los Angelenos who would ask people to use the full name instead of LA faded out.