Posted on 04/11/2010 12:14:46 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
he announcement last week that Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio will replace Cardinal Roger Mahony as head of the local Catholic diocese capped an assertion of power on the part of Latinos in Los Angeles that is remarkable in its seeming speed.
For decades, only one Latino held unquestioned public power: Edward R. Roybal, the first Latino to win a seat on the Los Angeles City Council. He spent 13 years there, then moved to Congress to serve 30 years, most of that time as the region's only Latino representative.
Now the power positions held by Latinos in the Los Angeles area are multiple and manifest. Besides the Mexico-born archbishop, who is in line to become the first U.S. prelate of Latino heritage to become a cardinal, there is the mayor. The speaker of the Assembly. The sheriff. A county supervisor. Several members of the City Council, of Congress, of the Legislature, of the Los Angeles school board. The head of the most influential civic entity, organized labor.
"It is coming full circle," said UC Berkeley associate professor Lisa García Bedolla, the author of two books on Latino politics. "That's what Los Angeles looked like before becoming part of the United States."
It is hardly accidental, however. The moves to the top in politics and other endeavors have required equal parts population shifts, hard-fought legal pursuit and political strategizing.
Population numbers are only the most obvious propellant for the ambitions of both the community and its leaders.
In 1960, according to a USC demographic study, fewer than 10% of the people in the Los Angeles County area were Latino. By 2008, according to federal census estimates, almost half were Latino. Roughly the same was true in the city of Los Angeles.
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All true
I haven’t hear any scandel YET only Church having problems is Cathoic church RIGHT NOW
So becoming Pentecostal is a good thing for Los Angeles then, they are conservative and Christian, and they are Republicans.
No idiot, those people (probably no more than 2,000) wanted NOTHING to do with the corrupt government in Mexico. They considered themselves SPANISH.
That is growing movement right now Latinos are becoming Pentcosasal and they are pro family also Republican that good news right now about that growing political movement in LA
That sounds pretty good, the Republicans carried 56% of the Protestant Hispanic vote in 2004.
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