South Gate, California

South Gate is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is part of the Gateway Cities region of southeastern Los Angeles County. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 96,375.

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Los Angeles County, California - United States - Gateway Cities - 2000

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South Gate developed during the 1920s and 1930s both as an industrial city (primarily in "metal-bashing" industries) and a working-class bedroom community. During the 1940s and 1950s, South Gate was one of the most fiercely segregationist cities in Southern California; gangs of white youths were known to prowl the streets looking for blacks who dared to cross over from neighboring Watts. Since the 1970s, South Gate has had a large Latino community, which became dominant in the 1990s as working-class Chicano and immigrant Mexican families filled the vacuum left by white flight. Several popular Mexican American gangsta rap celebrities are also from South Gate, including Cypress Hill.

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Watts - Latino - Chicano - White flight - Mexican American - Gangsta rap - Cypress Hill

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