Sub-cultures/Areas Within San Andreas

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This thread will comprise of area history between various areas. Consider these when you roleplay, as they can change the interests of your character.

El Corona's History and Culture:

Sureño Vida wrote:: This isn't an official history of El Corona, as plenty of factions roleplaying there over many year have their own made up histories, however this is the history that the Ten Line Gangster Crips have decided to use. Any other person or faction roleplaying within El Corona are free to use this history written by me as well.

Credits go to me and Budda for the thread.

Sureño Vida wrote:: SOUTH CENTRAL LOS SANTOS (INCLUDES EL CORONA) AND THE LOS SANTOS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. 2017.
EL CORONA

EARLY HISTORY
El Corona is one of the oldest neighborhoods in South Central Los Santos.

El Corona was once farmland which was cultivated and worked on by Spanish and later Mexican farmers throughout the period of Alta California and later the short lived San Andreas Republic.

When the Mexicans vacated what was once El Corona, the Los Santos municipal government were quick to utilize the land for major suburban development. The neighorhood of what is now El Corona was fully developed into a lower middle class suburb in 1858 and was christened with the name of Crowntown. It was the second neighborhood to be incorporated into South Central Los Santos, after the neighborhood of Bergen, which is now known as Little Mexico.

Despite the rest of South Central Los Santos prior to the 1940s and 1950s remaining predominately Caucasian American with sparse Latino American and African American populations, what is now El Corona always had a sizeable Latino American minority which constituted a little under half of the neighborhood's population throughout its existence in 1858 until 1949.

Street gangs and organized crime in the neighborhood was not very prevalent, though the neighborhood had its own gang culture which began in the early 1920s. The Mexican American populace who felt threatened by the racist whites in the neighborhood, who for many decades had been harassing the former, formed the 28th Street Gang in 1922. The 28th Street Gang remained exclusively Mexican American until well into the early 1940s, but began recruiting whites who were sympathetic towards the plight of Mexican Americans in the neighborhood due to a decline in recruitment because of America's involvement in the Second World War.

During the Second World War, sixty five percent of the young men in the neighborhood were drafted for service in the United States Armed Forces. The aforementioned young men served in all branches of the military and fought in Europe, North Africa and Asia. Upon the end of the Second World War, these young men came back to the neighborhood in order to return to their homes, most of which had been converted into affordable housing for returning veterans. At the same time, white flight soon took place within the neighborhood, starting in 1947, after the mostly white veterans began moving out for the middle class suburbs of Western Los Santos.

Working class and poor Latino Americans, predominately those who were Mexican Americans, migrated to El Corona from 1947 - 1955 and settled in the veterans housing which had since been converted to social housing projects for the poor and urban workers. Due to the neighborhoods already longstanding Latino American populace primarily comprised of Mexican Americans, and the near to complete lack of resistance from the majority white population, it was swiftly converted into South Central's only fully Mexican American neighborhood by 1955.

Throughout the late 1940s to late 1950s, the Mexican Americans from the Eastside Los Santos neighborhoods of East Los Santos, Jefferson and Glen Park, as well as the neighborhoods of the Las Colinas Valley, set up their own street gangs in El Corona. In order to establish a stronghold within their new neighborhoods, they joined forces with the already existing 28th Street Gang out of mutual interest. Ironically, this partnership with multiple Mexican American street gangs eventually worked and thus the first street gangs in the neighborhood became a major force in crime come 1959.

By 1962, El Corona was no longer a lower middle class neighborhood and instead was a poor, working class Mexican American slum with rising rates of broken families, drug problems, rapidly rising violent crime rates and street gang infestation.

In 1967, the Los Santos municipal government officially re-named the neighborhood El Corona, which in Spanish means The Crown. The new name was an attempt at a Spanish rendering of the neighborhood's old name, Crowntown, which was derived from the hamlet of Crowntown in the Cornwall region of England.

DEMOGRAPHICS
From 1955 until 1968, El Corona largely remained a Mexican American enclave and the Los Santos government censuses taken over that thirteen year period showed a fluctuation of 85 - 90% purity of Mexican Americans within the neighborhood. The only minority group to exist in the neighborhood at the time were Caucasian Americans, who at any given time constituted a mere 15 - 10% amount of its populace.

From 1968 until 1976, socioeconomic immigrants and refugees who were fleeing poverty, civil strife and civil wars throughout the South, Southeast and East regions of Asia settled in El Corona upon their immigration to the United States. However, the Mexican Americans in the neighborhood and especially the street gangs did not allow the new Asian immigrants to settle for long. Despite comprising 3% of the neighborhood's population in 1974, a mere two years later in 1976, there were no Asian immigrants remaining in it. The Asian immigrants who settled in social housing projects within the neighborhood were routinely harassed by the indigenous Mexican Americans and were the frequent victims of violent crime. The almost non-stop racially motivated harassment and violent crime towards the Asian immigrants caused them to have left the neighborhood by 1976. The last Asian immigrants, who were from Hong Kong in China, left El Corona for the Chinatown of East Beach in the summer of 1976.

An influx of Central American socioeconomic immigrants as well as refugees of civil strife and civil war arrived in El Corona throughout the 1980s and well into the early 1990s. People from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua flooded the streets of Eastside Los Santos, the Las Colinas Valley and South Central Los Santos where brutal violent crime-related fighting between Central American street gangs and Chicano street gangs rocked the slums. In El Corona, the Central American street gangs who attempted to establish a stronghold in it were forced out or almost all exterminated by the Locotes gang, which had the backing of the Mexican Mafia (eMe). In 1991, there was only a very small minority of Central American immigrants residing in El Corona, and of those that were living there, all were from Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Any and all people who were ethnic Salvadorans from El Salvador were forced to flee their homes in the neighborhood under the threat of being victimized in future ethnic clashes between Mexican Americans and Salvadorans, and/or death in the streets at the hands of violent criminal gangbangers.

Working class and poor Mexican immigrants have been settling in the El Corona neighborhood from multiple regions of Mexico since the early 1950s as illegal immigrants but have only been legally immigrating in mass numbers since 1968.

El Corona's racial demographics as reported by the most recent census in Los Santos are:
87% Latino American.
6% Caucasian American.
5% African American.
1% Pacific Islander.
1% Native American / unspecified.

El Corona as of 2017 has a population of 2,750 residents. It has remained around the same since the last census was taken in 2012.

According to the 2012 census in Los Santos, 78% of all residents in El Corona are under the age of twenty five.

El Corona is one of the least ethnically diverse neighborhoods in all of South Central Los Santos, where it remains nearly pure with Mexican immigrants and Mexican American residents. A minority of the Latinos and Latino Americans who reside in the neighborhood are from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.

EDUCATION
El Corona is serviced by the El Corona Elementary School, Cesar Chavez Elementary School, Aldama Junior High School, El Corona High School and Wilfred E. Willis High School. An alternative junior high school named Fredy Gonzalez Center and an alternative high school named Bright Future are located in El Corona, with both schools serving students who have a history of developmental disabilities and/or juvenile delinquency and street gang membership.

All schools within El Corona have outdated technology and resources such as textbooks, among other resources, which are still being used to help students learn nowadays. The only school with a functional computer laboratory is the Wilfred E. Willis High School and the computers there are severely damaged and destroyed by delinquent students on a regular basis.

All schools within El Corona are in a state of infrastructural dilapidation and are in very urgent need of renovations. The last renovation of a school in the neighborhood happened when Fredy Gonzalez Center was renovated in 1994.

Bullying is prevalent in all El Corona schools. School staff are often unable or unwilling to intervene in bullying. This lack of intervention enables the already mild to severe bullying to escalate into school violence. Unlike in other South Central neighborhoods, little to no extra security measures have been put into place to ensure safety and security in the schools. This has opened up opportunities for local street gangs such as the Locotes to recruit children and adolescents into the street gang from classrooms and the school yards. Rival street gang members from other neighborhoods who attend the schools in El Corona are vastly outnumbered by the Locotes and this causes almost non-stop street gang-related fist fights and large brawls to happen within the faculties and school grounds on a semi-regular basis.

Athletic programs in El Corona schools are the worst in all of South Central Los Santos. No school's athletic program within the neighborhood have made it to the South Central district finals in any sport at all since 2002. The athletic programs in the school are deplorable due to a lack of student involvement, an abundance of horrible coaching as well as a complete and utter lack of logistical resources for training athletes.

The high school dropout rate in El Corona is an astounding 60%, the worst such rate in all of South Central. The median age for students to leave high schools is 14.

The only street gang to see a large amount of success in recruiting local youths from the schools in El Corona is the Locotes street gang. Other street gangs such as the Mara Salvatrucha and the Eighteenth Street gang see some success but not much at all. Street gangs such as the Bloods and Crips are only successful with recruiting African American students, and the aforementioned two gangs are almost always under attack from the Locotes street gang, as well as sets from the Mara Salvatrucha and Eighteenth Street gang in El Corona's schools.

ECONOMY
El Corona has a horrific residential poverty rate of 60%, an equally abhorrent unemployment rate of 74% and a relatively high homelessness rate of 40%, the worst such rates in all of South Central.

El Corona's local economy consists of a very small retail industry, an adults-only store, an automotive body shop garage, a boxing and martial arts gym, a couple of bars and a Central American themed family restaurant. Most of the small businesses in the neighborhood are owned by Mexican immigrants with some owned by immigrant families from El Salvador and Nicaragua. Each and every small business in the neighborhood is currently being extorted by a street gang, namely the Locotes gang, but other street gangs such as the Mara Salvatrucha, Eighteenth Street gang and in recent years the Crips have been taking their share of the neighborhood's extortion rackets.

The working population of El Corona are almost all employed outside of the neighborhood, where they are working class laborers within multiple job industries in other South Central and Eastside slums. The only people to fully work in the neighborhood are the small business owners and their families.

CRIME
El Corona is infamous for being the worst off neighborhood in all of South Central in terms of crime, and especially violent crime and street gang related crime.

Due to the extremely high amount of poverty and unemployment within El Corona, the vast majority of residents who are children to middle aged adults in their thirties and forties are involved with blue collar crime in some way, shape or form. Of this vast majority, a sizeable amount are involved with the violent crime and street gang related crimes within the neighborhood.

55% of youths aged twelve to twenty five in El Corona are initiated members of local street gang sets.

El Corona has the highest violent crime and street gang-related crime rates in all of South Central. The neighborhood also has the highest murder rate in all of South Central. Violent crime and street gang-related crime rates in the neighborhood soared throughout the American crack epidemic and peaked in 1987 and have remained very high ever since.

Areas in El Corona which are nefarious for local criminal activity include 28th Street and the Tortilla Flats Housing Projects which are located along 38th Street. Other areas in the neighborhood which are less known but contain the same amount of crime include Unity Boulevard and Adams Park.

Small businesses within El Corona are always used for crime. The sale of hard drugs happens in all small businesses in the neighborhood and the small business owners are extorted into allowing this to happen. Small business owners who refuse to comply are always threatened with extreme violence and/or death.

The oldest street gang in El Corona, the 28th Street Gang, currently exists as the Locotes street gang and is the oldest street gang in El Corona and one of the oldest Chicano street gangs in South Central. Other street gangs exist in the neighborhood, and have existed, and they include the Eighteenth Street Adams Park Chicos Malos, Eighteenth Street Los Players, Adams Park Playboys and the Ten Line Gangster Crips.

East Los Santos General History and Statistics:

Sureño Vida wrote:: Eastside Los Santos is a region of Los Santos which comprises the neighborhoods of Glen Park, Jefferson, East Los Santos and Los Flores. The entire region is stricken with the unbreakable cycle of poverty, broken families, family violence, drug addiction, alcoholism, petty crime and street gangs and has been since its founding in the 1850s but especially since the 1960s.

Eastside Los Santos is primarily populated with impoverished Latino Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Caucasian Americans. A small minority of residents within the whole of the Eastside belong to the age-old Irish American, Italian American and Greek American communities which have traditionally been located from Melrose Avenue to 117th Street on the western border with Los Flores. Since the Immigration and Neutrality Act was put into effect circa 1968, the whole of Eastside has seen immigrants settle, primarily in Jefferson, who are originally from Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, South Korea and Japan. In recent years, the whole of Eastside has experienced an influx of middle class and upper middle class immigrants from countries such as Russia, Romania, Moldova, the former Yugoslavia and multiple countries from the Muslim world, primarily in the Middle East as well as from Turkey and Pakistan. These middle class and upper middle class immigrants are unable to afford to be within the middle class socioeconomic bracket within the United States as a whole, so they have to re-start their lives in America within the poor and working class in order to work their way into the American middle class.

Eastside Los Santos is particularly known for their rich attachment to Mexican American culture as well as the more notable Chicano subculture. Since the 1980s and 1990s, the region has seen the importation of other Latin American cultures such as ones from Central America. The first Salvadoran community along the west coast of the United States was founded as Santa Ana Park in Glen Park circa 1985. Other cultural influences within the district include those brought over from the Deep South by African American migrants who came to Southern San Andreas from the years of 1916 to 1940. Less recognized but strongly important cultural influences include those which have been created and maintained by the age-old Irish American, Italian American and Greek American communities since the 1900s and 1910s.

During the late 1950s through to the early 1970s, the region was home to several dozen leftist movements such as the African American and Mexican American civil rights movements, the Chicano Movement, the Black Panther Party and second wave feminist movements, among many others.

Since the late 1960s and early 1970s, street gangs such as the Sureños, 18th Street gang, the Bloods and the Crips have controlled the street gang underworld within the district with some exceptions, such as the Kilo Block gang, among others. Other street gangs which have sprung up over the years within the district include Asian American street gangs and Caucasian American street gangs which embrace the peckerwood, skinhead and neo-Nazi subcultures. Prior to the late 1960s, most Mexican American and African American street gangs within the entire district were loosely organized and had no membership to larger street gang alliances, with the exception of the East Los Maravilla which still functions today but far less effectively than it did from the late 1910s to the early 1970s.

Organized crime within the district is dominated by outlaw biker gangs, prison-based criminal organizations such as the Mexican Mafia, Nazi Lowriders, Aryan Brotherhood and the Black Guerrilla Family, as well as foreign organized crime groups from the former Yugoslavia, former Eastern Bloc and the former Soviet Union.

The Petrulli crime family once had a monopoly on organized crime throughout the district from the late 1940s until the early 1990s but were eradicated by the Valenti crime family in a bloody mob war which dragged on throughout the entire 1990s. After the Petrulli crime family's influence was eradicated, elements of the Valenti crime family, outlaw biker gangs, prison-based criminal organizations and street gangs took over their vacant criminal rackets throughout the district.

Statistics as of 2017
17% of all residents within Eastside Los Santos live under the poverty line.
23% of all residents within Eastside Los Santos are chronically unemployed.
42% of all residents within Eastside Los Santos are currently recieving some form of state welfare.
62% of all residents within Eastside Los Santos live in low to mid rise housing projects.
13% of all residents within Eastside Los Santos live in homeless shelters, motels and hotels.
56% of all residents within Eastside Los Santos are under the age of 30.
58% of all residents within Eastside Los Santos do not have education beyond a high school diploma.
32% of all residents within Eastside Los Santos are high school dropouts.
35% of all residents within Eastside Los Santos are members of local street gangs according to LSPD GND estimates.

Immigrants and their 1st generation American descendants have reported higher rates of impoverishment, primarily due to language barriers and the culture shock of their foreign cultures having to assimilate into the unique blend of cultures within the region.

48% of residents are Latino Americans.
24% of residents are African Americans.
16% of residents are Asian Americans.
9% of residents are Caucasian Americans.
2% of residents are immigrants with foreign citizenships.
1% of residents are classified as being Native American/Pacific Islander/unspecified.

The population of Eastside Los Santos as of 2017 is 256,375 persons.

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