Los Angeles Racially Segregated (San Francisco, East Los Angeles: 2013, living, move)

[bellomiss]

I live in Los Angeles (specifically Burbank) and I find that it is racially segregated. I have a black friend who also lives in Burbank and she told me that she feels like an outsider because there are so many whites living there. She also told me that it was hard for her to make friends. Does anybody else agree that Los Angeles is a little racially segregated. For example, Asians primarily live in Chinatown or Monterey Park. Blacks tend to live in Baldwin Hills and Inglewood. Latinos tend to live in East Los Angeles. Whites tend to live Malibu, Westwood, or Bel Air. Although Los Angeles is diverse compared to some other states in the U.S., I don't find it to be overwhelmingly diverse or as diverse as NYC. I have never been near the Bay Area, but is it racially segregated like Los Angeles?

[GatsbyGatz]

LA racially segregated? No way!

P.s. Beverly Hills began as one of many all-white planned communities in the LA area. LA itself began as mostly a WASP city until racial integration split up the city in a riotous way.

[Count David]

A little?

It's not Chicago/Detroit/St. Louis-level bad, but there are some lines that could be drawn.

There are places you won't find certain types of people, but it would be hard to be able to actually say that it's a byproduct of racism/etc. It could be anything from historical settlement patterns, to self-segregation, to choosing to live near family, economic reasons, commutes, anything.

We've gone over this in another city's forum (a city I consider fairly segregated), and the above reasons were used to debunk my theories.

[red4ce]

Take a look for yourself.

Maps across the US: 2000 to 2010 demographic change

Did you just move here recently? I can't imagine anyone who grew up in LA wouldn't have realized this a long time ago.

[City_Sourge]

Yes, Los Angeles is racially segregated city. Don't believe those people who kept saying "I love LA", they will just put lies in your head. In contrast, San Francisco and NYC is overwhelmingly diverse.

[Cheektowaga_Chester]

There are all sorts of metrics with charts and tables that show diversity indices. For example

CensusScope -- Segregation: Dissimilarity Indices

and

Segregation Scores: ACS 2005-9

[ccm123]

It is one of the most segregated cities in the US:

Most Segregated Cities Census Maps - Business Insider

[ElysianEagle]

Originally Posted by City_Sourge

Yes, Los Angeles is racially segregated city. Don't believe those people who kept saying "I love LA", they will just put lies in your head. In contrast, San Francisco and NYC is overwhelmingly diverse.

i don't know about SF but NYC is quite segregated - but still diverse (as is LA). a similar map of NYC shows the same kind of segregation as you see on the map for LA:

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/...map-shows-you/

when you walk around manhattan in NYC you definitely see ppl of a million different races/ethnicities/nationalities but in terms of who actually lives in the city (below 125th) it's quite a different story.

[disgruntled la native]

Sorta true, but in the end LA is just mostly Latino. Even the "black" areas have a Latino majority (Compton, Watts, South LA), and the "white" and "Asian" areas have significant, sometimes near plurality Latino populations (i.e. Monterey Park/Alhambra in the SGV or Del Rey/Culver City in the Westside, parts of the west SFV). Tons of Latinos hang out and work in the whitest areas like Pacific Palisades or Bel Air, so there is always a diversity of culture and people around.

[munchitup]

Originally Posted by disgruntled la native

Sorta true, but in the end LA is just mostly Latino. Even the "black" areas have a Latino majority (Compton, Watts, South LA), and the "white" and "Asian" areas have significant, sometimes near plurality Latino populations (i.e. Monterey Park/Alhambra in the SGV or Del Rey/Culver City in the Westside, parts of the west SFV). Tons of Latinos hang out and work in the whitest areas like Pacific Palisades or Bel Air, so there is always a diversity of culture and people around.

Though this is true of almost all of California at this point.