When Fullerton Residents Discriminated Against African-American and Latino Veterans Returning from World War II

• Not a lot of Mexicans in Coto de Caza -- at least not a lot who own homes there.

• Yeah, the Mexicans sure did bring down prices in Coto de Caza and other parts of Southern OC...

• BTW, Breivik has been declared clinically insane according to news reports.

• And there is evidence it would have. See, say, Detroit of Newark or Compton. I personally know of a neighborhood in an industrial mid-west city were two groups of white ethnics pretty much only sell to their owny, voluntarily.  It's kind of like in California today were Mexicans hire their own, but I digress. They advertise in the ethnic press, sell by word of mouth. The area remains a tranquil island of beige-ish white. The rest of the city, not so much.

• So if the actual institution rejected the petition, how is that 'institutional racism"? BTW if they were building *new* housing, the people living in them wouldn't be 'neighbors' they were welcoming black.

• "objected on the grounds it would depreciate the value of the surrounding property and they did not want Negroes and Mexicans in the neighborhood." This was typical of the period even through the 60's.  A neighbor came over to tell us not to sell to "blacks" because it would hurt home prices. 

• Well at least they used "proper terminology" for the time period.  I would have been opposed to it because as a Veteran myself I know what kind of beer swilling vagrants we can be... 

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