The Racial Resegregation of Los Angeles County, 1940-2000

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Chart 7a: ASIAN NEIGHBORS
Probability that Asians, Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics
will have Asian Neighbors in Los Angeles County, 1940-2000
19 4 0 19 50 19 6 0 19 70 19 8 0 19 9 0 2 0 0 0
Asians wit h Asians 0.12 0.07 0.11 0.12 0.15 0.22 0.20
Whit es wit h Asians 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.07 0.1 0.14
Hispanics with Asians 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.04 0.07 0.09 0.10
Blacks with Asians 0.04 0.04 0.04 0.03 0.04 0.06 0.09
Asians with Asians
Whites wit h Asians
Hispanics wit h Asians
Blacks with Asians
Chart 7a, “Probability that Asians, Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics will have Asian
Neighbors in Los Angeles County, 1940-2000,” shows modest increases that all groups will
have Asian neighbors—but most of all that Asians are more likely to have Asian neighbors.
Even so , it is very important to note that the rates a quite low. This chart is scaled to reach its
maximum at 25%, so the values in it a quite small despite the visual effect of the rising lines.
The bottom line is that Whites, Blacks, and Asians in 2000 still had no more than a 14%
chance of having an Asian neighbor.
The Asian population has bee rising more slowly than the Hispanic, to compare the two main
immigrant groups, but its volume has now surpassed the one million mark, so we would
expect that the non-Asian groups will be more likely to have Asian neighbors. The relatively
low figures here, however, suggest that Asians are settling in clustered enclaves, a prediction
supported by the companion Table 7b.
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