FiveThirtyEight- The 6 Political Neighborhoods Of Los Angeles

[Kamala's side hoe]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-6-political-neighborhoods-of-los-angeles/

We’ve carved up Los Angeles into six political regions based on the results2 of seven elections on the November 2020 ballot: the presidential race, the district attorney’s race and five high-profile local ballot measures.

Together, these elections encapsulate several modern political cleavages:

• The contest between then-President Donald Trump and now-President Joe Biden gets at the traditional red-blue divide.
• The district attorney’s race shows support for a centrist Democrat (incumbent Jackie Lacey) versus a progressive criminal-justice reformer (George Gascón).
• Proposition 22, which sought to guarantee modest benefits to gig workers (e.g., Uber and Lyft drivers) in exchange for classifying them as independent contractors (and thus ineligible for fuller benefits), reveals Angelenos’ feelings on business and labor.
• Measure J, which sought to invest more money in communities of color to discourage incarceration, and Proposition 15, which would have effectively raised taxes on many commercial properties by taxing them at market value instead of purchase price, gauge how much residents want to redistribute wealth in their city.
• Measure J and Proposition 16, which aimed to overturn the state’s ban on affirmative action, get at attitudes on racial justice.
• Proposition 21, which tried to expand rent control, helps us see where city residents stand on the hot-button issue of housing.

South-Central: immediately north of and right next to the "isthmus"


True-Blue Progressives: "the hip neighborhoods of Silver Lake, Echo Park and Los Feliz, as well as Northeast Los Angeles, a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood with a suburban feel"


Fair-Weather Progressives: multi-racial corridor along I-10 containing "predominantly white Culver City through heavily Black Crenshaw, significantly Asian American Koreatown, diverse Downtown and heavily Hispanic Eastside L.A."


Tinseltown: self-explanatory


Inner Suburbs: "central" San Fernando Valley + some other outlying areas, majority Latino


Outer Suburbs: "west" and "east" San Fernando Valley + some other outlying areas, plurality White

[Antonio the Sixth]

So I used to live in Fair-Weather Progressives land. Interesting.

[Kamala's side hoe]

So I used to live in Fair-Weather Progressives land. Interesting.

I'm not familiar enough with LA proper to know exactly where the UCLA Campus is (I know it's in Westwood near the coast), but I'm guessing you lived in westernmost part of the light purple area then?

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

This is utter nonsense. The most salient predictors of political behavior in LA relate to race and ethnicity!

[pikachu]

So I used to live in Fair-Weather Progressives land. Interesting.

I'm not familiar enough with LA proper to know exactly where the UCLA Campus is (I know it's in Westwood near the coast), but I'm guessing you lived in westernmost part of the light purple area then?

Westwood is in between the two white spaces in the Westside – the one on the west is the VA and the one on the east is Beverly Hills. Sawtelle, where a lot of grad students live, is in the progressive belt.

The entire map kinda sucks and they could’ve just gone with a more traditional Westside, Valley, Hollywood, etc division instead of this where there’s nonsensical stuff like grouping Sawtelle with Boyle Heights and Bel Air with San Pedro.

[Torie]

This sextet is a rather superficial fail, or I am way, way out of date. I have personally grown up and then worked in 3 of the six slices of the pie (and still miss Silverlake). My partner has lived in two more. None were very good for my soul, the loci of that in and of itself sometimes a challenge to find.

[Kamala's side hoe]

So I used to live in Fair-Weather Progressives land. Interesting.

I'm not familiar enough with LA proper to know exactly where the UCLA Campus is (I know it's in Westwood near the coast), but I'm guessing you lived in westernmost part of the light purple area then?

Westwood is in between the two white spaces in the Westside – the one on the west is the VA and the one on the east is Beverly Hills. Sawtelle, where a lot of grad students live, is in the progressive belt.

The entire map kinda sucks and they could’ve just gone with a more traditional Westside, Valley, Hollywood, etc division instead of this where there’s nonsensical stuff like grouping Sawtelle with Boyle Heights and Bel Air with San Pedro.

It annoys me that they didn't give a summary of how populous each region is like they kind of did with the 2021 NYC version.

[ProgressiveModerate]

Thanks for 538 doing this.

I think the relative political homogeneity on the federal level relative to say NYC gives people false impression it's just a giant blue blob.

[SInNYC]

So I used to live in Fair-Weather Progressives land. Interesting.

I'm not familiar enough with LA proper to know exactly where the UCLA Campus is (I know it's in Westwood near the coast), but I'm guessing you lived in westernmost part of the light purple area then?

Westwood is in between the two white spaces in the Westside – the one on the west is the VA and the one on the east is Beverly Hills. Sawtelle, where a lot of grad students live, is in the progressive belt.

The entire map kinda sucks and they could’ve just gone with a more traditional Westside, Valley, Hollywood, etc division instead of this where there’s nonsensical stuff like grouping Sawtelle with Boyle Heights and Bel Air with San Pedro.

They didnt do this division, its what fell out of the data, and I have no reason to believe 538 didnt do the appropriate clustering based on the data.

Now you can make valid arguments about the validity of this approach. I personally think votes on issues today are often driven by what those of your tribe are  told to believe rather than any true ideology.

[Kamala's side hoe]

Thanks for 538 doing this.

I think the relative political homogeneity on the federal level relative to say NYC gives people false impression it's just a giant blue blob.

The biggest geographic divide in LA proper you'd expect to play out electorally would be the San Fernando Valley (outlying suburban area) vs the Los Angeles basin (where downtown is)