Tell me what L.A. was like back in the 1950's/1960's (Los Angeles: living, moving)

[Count David]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaGal

I have not left California. :-)

Ever?!?!?!?!?!?

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by Astral_Weeks

A total exaggeration of anything I said....as usual you given to hyperbole.

Would you care to address the second part of that post:

For example, neighborhoods such as Compton were, once upon a time ago, 100% White. So then, if everybody was a hardcore Grand Dragon Klansman Nazi Brownshirt Skinhead Stormfronter, how did Black people eventually move into the area? Would not the White racists have kept them out if racism was so prevalent as some people claim?

[Nerdlord]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

Would you care to address the second part of that post:

For example, neighborhoods such as Compton were, once upon a time ago, 100% White. So then, if everybody was a hardcore Grand Dragon Klansman Nazi Brownshirt Skinhead Stormfronter, how did Black people eventually move into the area? Would not the White racists have kept them out if racism was so prevalent as some people claim?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

[Steve Bagu]

I skimmed thru that reference and basically has ZILCH to do with L.A. in the 1950-60 time period.

Watts was a south central thing back then slowly moving to Compton. I had a lot of business dealings with Grocery stores when in the Inventory Service trade.

EDIT: Forgot my main thought here. Reference to the Brown shirt...Nazi.....Klansman is a bunch of C***. It never existed those days in Calif in my knowledge considering I did business in Watts.

[Nerdlord]

Originally Posted by Steve Bagu

I skimmed thru that reference and basically has ZILCH to do with L.A. in the 1950-60 time period.

Watts was a south central thing back then slowly moving to Compton. I had a lot of business dealings with Grocery stores when in the Inventory Service trade.

EDIT: Forgot my main thought here. Reference to the Brown shirt...Nazi.....Klansman is a bunch of C***. It never existed those days in Calif in my knowledge considering I did business in Watts.

You're telling me white flight has absolutely ZILCH to do with LA?

[Steve Bagu]

Reading comprehension is not your best asset.

I read the reference you showed and it did not pertain to south Los Angeles but Africa and other countries.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by Nerdlord

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_flight

Your move.

[Nerdlord]

Originally Posted by Exitus Acta Probat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_flight

Your move.

wut. Are you confused about the terms white flight and black flight? Perhaps you have some reading to do.


Thread title: Tell me what L.A. was like back in the 1950's/1960's

From your the wiki article: Black flight is a term applied to the out-migration of African Americans from predominantly black or mixed inner-city areas in the United States to suburbs and outlying edge cities of newer home construction. Since the 2000 census, the number and proportion of black population has decreased in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington, DC.

[Nerdlord]

Originally Posted by Steve Bagu

Reading comprehension is not your best asset.

I read the reference you showed and it did not pertain to south Los Angeles but Africa and other countries.

Yes. I am the one with reading comprehension issues when you can't even figure out how to internet.


Since you seem to be having such trouble let me show you where to click:




Here is one of the sources in the wikipedia article:

Avila, Eric (2005). Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24811-3.

Here is an ENTIRE PARAGRAPH about an example of white flight in an LA suburb:

A secondary, non-geographic consequence of school desegregation and busing was "cultural" white flight: withdrawing white children from the mixed-race public school system and sending them to private schools unaffected by US federal integration laws. In 1970, when the United States District Court for the Central District of California ordered the Pasadena Unified School District desegregated, the proportion of white students (54%) reflected the school district's proportion of whites (53%). Once the federally ordered school desegregation began, whites who could afford private schools withdrew their children from the racially diverse Pasadena public school system. By 2004, Pasadena had 63 private schools educating some 33% of schoolchildren, while white students made up only 16% of the public school populace. The Pasadena Unified School District superintendent characterized public schools as "like the bogey-man" to whites. He implemented policies to attract white parents to the racially diverse Pasadena public school district.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by Nerdlord

wut. Are you confused about the terms white flight and black flight? Perhaps you have some reading to do.


Thread title: Tell me what L.A. was like back in the 1950's/1960's

From your the wiki article: Black flight is a term applied to the out-migration of African Americans from predominantly black or mixed inner-city areas in the United States to suburbs and outlying edge cities of newer home construction. Since the 2000 census, the number and proportion of black population has decreased in several major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington, DC.

The point is that it's not just one ethnicity of people who moves when their financial means change.