Locke High School in South Los Angeles locked down after huge brawl

Los Angeles Times ^ | May 10, 2008 | Howard Blume and Mitchell Landsberg

[Travis McGee]

What’s the hispanic % in Memphis and Nashville? Those would be interestng tests.

Three way splits are inherently unstable. THink Bosnia, with the Croats, Muslims and Serbs.

[Haddit]

Here’s a very good article about gangs;

From LA Weekly
By Peter Landesman
Dec 12, 07
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/la-gangs-nine-miles-and-spreading/17861/?page=1

“Recently, in Jordan Downs, a Grape Street clique rebuffed by a 14-year-old boy who refused to join gang-raped his 12-year-old sister, taped the attack, and showed the video to the boy. The boy gave in and joined. Older gang members and veteran police say the neighborhoods are codeless and anarchic. “The hood is lost because we ain’t got no guidance right now,” a hardcore Bounty Hunter Blood told me. “It’s just us young gangsters.”

The differences between black and Latino gangs are stark. And the black gang members I spoke with readily admit that the difference is fatal. Damien Hartfield, the former Bounty Hunter, explained, “Blacks do what they want. When Latinos go gangbanging they have a solid plan. Blacks don’t go to war like that. It’s spontaneous. Something just happens. Latinos make a call, make a plan. They have a structure.”

LAPD Chief Bratton admits he is bewildered by how anarchic L.A.’s black gangs have become.

“African-American violence is totally out of proportion to their numbers,” he said. “With Latinos, there is so much more family structure, while it’s not as if blacks rally around the African-American community just because they are black. They associate more with their gang colors than they do with their own color as African-Americans. It’s almost as if they lost identities as African-Americans.”

Watts and neighboring Compton, historically and famously black neighborhoods, are already roughly 70 percent Hispanic. Hispanic gangs know they don’t need to wage war against black gangs. They are happy to wait it out as black gangs sabotage themselves. Gangbangers in Watts tell me they know they can’t keep up. And they know their fate.
“Ten years from now gangs from all other races besides Hispanic are going to be pushed out of everywhere,” Andre says. “

[wardaddy]

Memphis proper is around 65% black with Latinos only around 3-4%...the rest white more or less

Nashville metro is around 8% black, 15% latino and the rest White

Nashville proper is 25% black