How have your city's ethnic neighborhoods changed over the years and decades? Is a neighborhood that was one ethnicity 50 or 75 years ago now home to another ethnicity? Has the ethnic presence fizzled out? Has the neighborhood shifted in a certain direction?

The South Bay Area has changed big time from when I was a kid. There was a big influx of Asians (specifically Chinese and Filipino) in the 90s and Indians in the 00s. When I was in elementary school I don't remember there being more than a handful of Asian students.

Miami's Little Havana is still strongly identified with the Cuban-American community but it's increasingly a Central American enclave. Even so, it remains the social, cultural, and political center of the exile community. Cubans have settled all over the metropolitan area in suburban communities where it can't be replicated.

My grandmother grew up in south central San Antonio in a mostly German community. I think its 80% Hispanic now.

Which neighborhoods? Chicago has 77 officially designated community areas, and over 200 recognized neighborhoods. You could write a whole book on the changing neighborhoods of Chicago. However, this one is a "simple" answer of how Chicago has changed:

http://www.uic.edu/orgs/kbc/Archives/Guggenheim/animsidelegend.gif

Hey thats a really great map of Chicago's changing neighborhoods.

One big drawback: The map would be MUCH easier to follow if the colors on the map matched the predominant racial-ethnic colors in the districts.

Who knows, maybe if they do an 2010 update they could incorporate that?

I'm not from LA but one thing I noticed with South Central (now South LA) and Compton are these places now have Hispanic majority unlike the African American majority of the late 20th century.

South Broadway has gone from predominantly hispanic to mixed black/hispanic to a gentrified mix of various races. Dispersion has been in effect citywide since the 1990s.

I'm not from LA but one thing I noticed with South Central (now South LA) and Compton are these places now have Hispanic majority unlike the African American majority of the late 20th century.


Since the early 1990s, lots of African Americans have left LA for the Inland Empire & the Central Valley, while many others have left California period for Atlanta & other southern metros.

Since the early 1990s, lots of African Americans have left LA for the Inland Empire & the Central Valley, while many others have left California period for Atlanta & other southern metros.

There is a reverse trend as African Americans try to flee the south right before the American Civil War. Several years afterwards, they have moved back there especially in Georgia.