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Article: A tale of two cities: in the past couple of decades, Los Angeles and Houston have both seen huge growth in their Latino populations--and in Latino poverty. But that's where the similarities end.(Political inequality: participation)
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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BY THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY, LOS ANGELES and Houston were the dominant cities in the dominant states of the just emerging Sun Belt. Politically, though, they were both still tight, white little towns.
Each city had a remarkably small informal governing committee all white, all Protestant, all CEO, all rightwing--that held sway over matters large and small. In Los Angeles, the Committee of 25 met regularly in Asa Call's office at Pacific Mutual Insurance, tending to the selection of pro-business mayors. To persuade Norris Poulson, a conservative congressman, to run for mayor in 1953, committee members had to promise him that they'd personally shell out for a ...
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