The Racial Resegregation of Los Angeles County, 1940-2000
The Racial Resegregation of Los Angeles County, 1940-2000
The Racial Resegregation of Los Angeles County, 1940-2000
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4.0 DETAILED FINDINGS<br />
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CHART 1: OVERALL POPULATION FIGURES<br />
Total and Proportional <strong>Racial</strong> Population <strong>of</strong> <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong> <strong>County</strong>, <strong>1940</strong>-<strong>2000</strong><br />
1.9%<br />
2.2%<br />
2.7%<br />
93.3%<br />
5.8%<br />
1.3%<br />
5.0%<br />
87.9%<br />
2.0%<br />
9.6%<br />
7.6%<br />
80.8%<br />
19 4 0 19 50 19 6 0 19 70 19 8 0 19 9 0 2 0 0 0<br />
Asian 52,911 57,582 123,638 201,704 536,241 963,642 1,308,766<br />
Hispanic 61,248 249,173 582,309 1,288,716 2,071,530 3,359,526 4,242,213<br />
Black 75,206 214,897 459,806 755,719 924,774 931,449 924,518<br />
White 2,620,450 3,796,190 4,897,580 4,798,872 3,977,480 3,647,555 3,043,840<br />
Chart 1, “Total and Proportional <strong>Racial</strong> Population <strong>of</strong> <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong> <strong>County</strong>, <strong>1940</strong>-<br />
<strong>2000</strong>,” displays the total population, total subgroup population, and proportional share <strong>of</strong><br />
each population in percentages, from <strong>1940</strong> to <strong>2000</strong>.<br />
Race Contours <strong>2000</strong> –<strong>Resegregation</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong> <strong>County</strong>, <strong>1940</strong>-<strong>2000</strong> 10<br />
Asian<br />
Hispanic<br />
While the most obvious fact about the county is its great diversity, notice also that even by<br />
1980, a most important feature <strong>of</strong> the overall patterns is that Whites reached the apogee <strong>of</strong><br />
their population size as early as 1960, and have been declining in absolute numbers ever<br />
since.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Black population peaked in 1990, but has remained almost constant since 1980, at just<br />
under one million persons.<br />
Indeed, despite spectacular growth <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Los</strong> Angels metropolis since <strong>1940</strong>, Whites in <strong>2000</strong><br />
are only slightly more numerous than they were in before the Second World War.<br />
In other words, the growth <strong>of</strong> <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong> <strong>County</strong> since 1960 is almost entirely the work <strong>of</strong><br />
non-White and non-Black groups.<br />
2.9%<br />
18.3%<br />
10.7%<br />
68.2%<br />
7.1%<br />
27.6%<br />
12.3%<br />
53.0%<br />
10.8%<br />
37.7%<br />
10.5%<br />
41.0%<br />
13.7%<br />
44.6%<br />
9.7%<br />
32.0%<br />
Black<br />
White