Monday, March 24, 2008

L.A. Times: Whittier - Nixon's old stomps - becomes center of Latino elite

"Now the Reilly estate has become the Zapanta estate, and it stands as a monument to a new set of aspirations.

The Zapantas are fourth-generation Mexican Americans from East Los Angeles, part of a wave of doctors and lawyers, small-business owners and school administrators who are remaking Whittier into a center of upper-middle- class and upper-class Latino life in Southern California."


http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-whittier22mar22,1,1380058.story

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