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Article: Invisible no more: the place called Los Angeles.(geographical history)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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PARTLY BECAUSE OF ITS geographical setting and Mediterranean climate, partly because of its size and concentrations of wealth and poverty, Los Angeles has been undervalued and misjudged. Los Angeles history has been practically invisible to many people, western historians among them. Some parts of California, such as the Sierra, are considered more western than others, but Los Angeles--the city, county, or greater metropolitan area--is mostly excluded or ignored from the community called the West.
Those of us who live out here on the West Coast believe we are in the West. We think and speak in local terms; we identify ourselves via region, which is variously ...