Recently spent a lot of time in Anaheim and East LA for work.
Totally different than the reasonably well integrated suburban middle class neighborhoods when I was there in the 80’s.
Entire cities are Balkanized Ethnic enclaves of Hispanics, Blacks and Asians and in places where Hispanics dominate English is the second language.
The checkout lines at Wal Mart are packed with non English speaking Hispanics, and about 90% of them were paying for their purchases with California's distinctive Welfare EBT card.
There is a strong presence of violent gangs, many of which are part of or affiliated with the same violent Mexican drug cartels that are killing thousands across the border.
I feel sorry for the police that have to patrol those areas because it's probably leaving the green zone in Iraq than entering into some of those neighborhoods if you are a cop because the gang members are openly hostile and aggressive to the police .
California is a poster child for our failed social policies.
Don't want to be anywhere near those cities when the welfare checks stop coming and the EBT accounts getting their monthly cash transfers.
Since California and the rest of the country are out of other peoples money that day may be coming sooner than later.
Yup
Back in the late ‘90s, I was driving OTR commercial truck.
Had a delivery appointment in South Central LA, a furniture warehouse. Got talking with the guys loading my truck.
As I drove into the area, I saw several burnt-out buildings. Off the cuff, I asked about them. I was told they were remnants of the ‘92 riots, and they were left standing and blackened, as reminders. I never got an answer as to a reminder of what, exactly...