The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules: Latinos and African Americans in South Los AngelesSouth Los Angeles is often seen as ground zero for inter racial conflict and violence in the United States. Since the 1940s, South LA has been predominantly a low income African American neighborhood, and yet since the early 1990s Latino immigrants mostly from Mexico and many undocumented have moved in record numbers to the area. Given that more than a quarter million people live in South LA and that poverty rates exceed 30 percent, inter racial