“In the segregated South, it was government that did the segregating,” said Tom Hogen-Esch, chair of the political science department at Cal State Northridge. “On the West Coast, it was the private sector that was fulfilling the desire for segregated communities. The real estate industry was one of those elements that contributed to racial and class segregation.”
Los Angeles Daily News
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