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East L.A.: The tragic underside of the census
Los Angeles Times ^ | December 16, 2008 | Hector Tobar

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: census; latinos; losangeles; race

1 posted on 12/17/2008 5:33:08 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

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.


2 posted on 12/17/2008 5:37:32 PM PST by GOPGuide
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To: Lorianne
that the separation of ethnic groups lives on in our 21st century city.

Well damn, you mean bird of a feather like to flock together? Wow, who'd a thunk

3 posted on 12/17/2008 5:40:43 PM PST by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: GOPGuide

well, places like Huntington Park are 98% illegal.....you can guess which is a better part of town.


4 posted on 12/17/2008 5:41:59 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: Lorianne

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.


5 posted on 12/17/2008 5:43:33 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
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To: Lorianne

Yes, LA Times, white flight actually exists. Most of the Eastern European and Jewish families moved to the west side decades ago.


6 posted on 12/17/2008 5:51:33 PM PST by ruination
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To: BurbankKarl

Speaking of budget cuts...


7 posted on 12/17/2008 5:51:36 PM PST by AliVeritas (Pray, Pray, Pray)
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To: bcsco; Current Occupant

Argh ping


8 posted on 12/17/2008 5:52:16 PM PST by AliVeritas (Pray, Pray, Pray)
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To: YellowRoseofTx

So are we supposed to have politically correct outrage that there are Mexican-Americans in East LA?


9 posted on 12/17/2008 5:58:47 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: BurbankKarl

“well, places like Huntington Park are 98% illegal”

Sad, my aunt used to have a beautiful home there.


10 posted on 12/17/2008 6:57:53 PM PST by jim35 (A racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: jim35
Sad indeed, that our once-beautiful cities have been de facto invaded and occupied by a 3rd world demographic that has almost nothing in common with true Americans. The neighborhoods these folks inhabit are simply a transplant of their old villages, but with better infrastructure.

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.

11 posted on 12/18/2008 5:14:16 AM PST by I Buried My Guns (No Tag)
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To: GOPGuide
As a youngster, I delivered the Pomona Progress-Bulletin in Chino, where I lived. Is it still around?
12 posted on 12/21/2008 11:38:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
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To: GOPGuide

Agreed. I wish this toilet tissue, the LA Times, would just hurry up and die.


13 posted on 12/21/2008 11:57:55 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lorianne

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.


14 posted on 12/22/2008 12:29:53 AM PST by Yaelle
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