the Effects of Asian and Mexican immigration into California.

[VerbalIntercourse]

UCI: Immigrants made Southern California stronger | california, percent, southern - News - The Orange County Register

The large influx of Asian and Latino immigrants into Southern California in the past 50 years has resulted in less crime, lower joblessness and more stable property values, according to a study by University of California, Irvine.

South Central Los Angeles provides a glimpse of the changing landscape: African Americans made up the majority of residents in 1960, with Latinos accounting for 8.5 percent of the population. In 2007, the area was 80 percent Latino and 15 percent African American.

The burgeoning immigrant population in Southern California communities has contributed to increases in property values and decreases in crime rates. Southern California air quality has improved dramatically in the past three decades.

Similarly, ethnically mixed neighborhoods in Southern California today are more likely to have higher property values than homogenous neighborhoods, reversing a trend from earlier decades. In the 1980s and 1990s, neighborhoods with higher levels of racial/ethnic mixing at the beginning of the decade experienced lower home value appreciation over the following 10 years.

•Violent crime for downtown L.A. fell from 350 percent higher than the region average in 1990 to just 67 percent above the average in 2010 – during a period in which crime rates in general were trending downward. Meanwhile, rates for both the northeast San Fernando Valley and Hollywood Hills dropped from double or triple the average in 1990 to average levels in 2010. Rates for the Westside and Westwood/Beverly Hills areas fell from about average in 1990 to half the average in 2010.

 

[Double J]

This certainly doesn't reflect favorably upon black people.

 

[yesiambowling]

This certainly doesn't reflect favorably upon black people.

If they were native African Immigrants the effect would have been similar. The only evidence this confirms is that Amerikkkons are a violent culture.

 

[theworldismine13]

thats a pretty funny title, california has gone down in just about every statistic available during the past 20 years

crime has gone down all over the country so thats nothing

 

[Crakface]

Does the government pump drugs into these communities at the same rate they do ours?

 

[Thebadguy]

Does the government pump drugs into these communities at the same rate they do ours?

Give them time.

 

[Crakface]

Give them time.

True. It took a while for china to recover from queen victoria.

 

[Allah]

I dont see any evidence saying that the influx of latinos is the cause of less violence and higher property values. All this says is that the 90s were worse than the 00s.

However, people forget that a lot of mexican immigrants are middle class and not just laborers, which means that they come here, make money, buy houses, pay taxes etc

Homogenous neighborhoods are also more likely to be black and poor. They wouldnt be white as much because of those rich minorities that move into nicer neighborhoods making them heterogeneous.

Correlation is not causation.