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Old 02-03-2013, 11:15 AM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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That's so interesting to me. My experience with SoCal is mostly LA County, but I wonder if OC was more of a backwater back then.
Very much so. When we moved there people where we were from (West End SB County) thought we were crazy to move "way out there, so far from where people work". Most of our neighbors were retirees. It was also very politically right wing. Read about Senator Johns Briggs and Schmitz to understand more of what passed for the political mainstream. Nixon was considered a raging leftie by many down there, even though he was a native. People forget now that the two wings of the Republican party (Nixon's and Reagan's) were ideologically far apart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Schmitz

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Old 02-03-2013, 11:16 AM
 
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That's so interesting to me. My experience with SoCal is mostly LA County, but I wonder if OC was more of a backwater back then.
I don't like to say it but to many people in LA it is still a cultural backwater now.
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Old 02-03-2013, 11:18 AM
 
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In the mid '60's in Orange county we were told that "no blacks" were allowed. We had a black friend who was a Marine who came to visit with some of our white friends and we were evicted. I couldn't believe they could get away with that.
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Old 02-03-2013, 11:26 AM
 
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In the mid '60's in Orange county we were told that "no blacks" were allowed. We had a black friend who was a Marine who came to visit with some of our white friends and we were evicted. I couldn't believe they could get away with that.
We had two black kids at my high school (DHHS) and they were brother and sister. Not sure how they slipped through the cracks. They were very popular with the other kids and dressed much more nicely than the rest of us.
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Old 02-03-2013, 11:37 AM
 
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In the mid '60's in Orange county we were told that "no blacks" were allowed. We had a black friend who was a Marine who came to visit with some of our white friends and we were evicted. I couldn't believe they could get away with that.
Wow.....
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Old 02-03-2013, 11:58 AM
 
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A bit of research-

Restrictive covenants were common nationwide and the FHA openly supported the practice until it was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Even after the decision, covenants were grandfathered in by the FHA. The FHA’s training manual at the time cautioned against the “infiltration of inharmonious racial groups.” As late as 1959, the FHA rarely granted loans to minorities.
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshal...ts/cr11042.pdf

BTW, it wasn’t that long ago that some NYC co-op boards, especially those in “exclusive” buildings, were sometimes accused of not allowing Jews to buy in.
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Old 02-03-2013, 12:02 PM
 
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Wow.....
Hard for us to fathom the extent of discrimination. The main reason we had ghettos wasn't because minorities wanted to live together so much as they coudn't live anywhere else.
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Old 02-03-2013, 12:08 PM
 
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We had two black kids at my high school (DHHS) and they were brother and sister. Not sure how they slipped through the cracks. They were very popular with the other kids and dressed much more nicely than the rest of us.
Grew up in Fullerton and then Costa Mesa. Never saw any of that and in fact one of our top football players was black and no one cared. Never saw any overt discrimination at school or anywhere during my youth. Maybe people moving in from other States brought their baggage with them?
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Old 02-03-2013, 12:11 PM
 
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Grew up in Fullerton and then Costa Mesa. Never saw any of that and in fact one of our top football players was black and no one cared. Never saw any overt discrimination at school or anywhere during my youth. Maybe people moving in from other States brought their baggage with them?
Read, read, read, read, read and read some more.
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Old 02-03-2013, 12:14 PM
 
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Read, read, read, read, read and read some more.
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