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In particular, Wilson points to the explosion of the Asian population in Monterey Park, "the first mainland American city with an Asian majority." He also points to the exodus of blacks out of Compton, "a calling card for an entire movement of black hip-hop artists in the '90s," supplanted by an influx of Latinos.
"If there's one thing that's particularly depressing about this map," Wilson opines, "it's not really found in a story of which race ends up where, but in the fact that, over 20 years of so-called progress, these segregated pockets aren't melding. Rather, they're shifting in color."
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