SkanteVida27 Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 (edited) Chicanos in Los Santos During the in-between years 1900 – 1930, only about 15% of Mexican immigrants to L.S. came directly to the city after crossing the border. Most Mexican immigrants had their initial experiences with American life elsewhere. Few Mexicans crossed into the United States at San Andreas, the overwhelming majority entered through the border at Arizona or Texas, with El Paso serving as the port of entry for close to 60% of all immigrants who eventually settled in L.S. Mexican immigrants also chose Los Santos because it already contained a large community with a longstanding tradition, and many residents were present in the city to welcome newcomers that would aid in their adjustment. From thereafter, Los Santos Mexican community has been consistently dominated by successive waves of immigrants from Mexico. A clash of cultures between Mexicans and Anglos had taken an upswing from here on after, and many in the Spanish community separated themselves from the Mexican community at this time, relocating themselves along with the Anglos to other parts of L.S that today we know as South Los, Mirror Park, El Burro Heights and Vinewood, leaving the Downtown area to become fought over by the undesirables. Los Santos officials by depicting the city’s Mexican heritage as quaint, inflicted a particular kind of obscurity onto Mexican descendants of prior eras by appropriating and then commercializing their history, and this version in combination with the reduction in numbers of natives, further reduced an insignificant constituency the historical life of native-Angelinos, thus even though they had fore-shadowed the social position of later Mexican immigrants, the newcomers were oblivious to a fact largely irrelevant to their current predicament. Yet, remnants of native-Mexican Angelinos remained in the core of the burgeoning city. After 1910, the increased need of Los Santos industrial employers, requiring even more cheap immigrant laborers for their manufacturing factories, auto assembly, meat packing, and steel plants, persuaded more and more immigrants to move out to the city outskirts, elbow room was needed and affordability became primordial. Despite the original inhabitants’ origins of Los Santos, the English language prevailed in the daily commerce and business world of the city, and despite the many familiarities to their homeland, Los Santos to the many immigrants, was indeed a strange new environment, in stark contrast with their rural and beloved Mexico. Los Santos by 1929 surpassed all other western cities in manufacturing, the city grew from a population of 50,000 in 1890, to 1.2 million by 1930, and its diversity when compared to eastern cities, represented a wider range of cultures and peoples. However, it was the middle-class mid-westerner, who dominated the public culture and politics. These were the settlers who had been lured by the Chamber of commerce to populate the Los Santos basin with the help of real estate “agents” who carved out former farm and ranch land into suburban plots. The philosophy that Mexican immigrants traditions and customs were impediments to their rapid integration into American life, was a view extensively promoted by the “progressive reformers” who developed strategies and programs that would break up the Mexican communities, with the goal on hand to implant and assimilate into their children, so far as can be done, the "Anglo-Saxon conception of righteousness, law and order, and popular government". ‘The endless streets crowded with the shacks of illiterate, diseased, pauperized Mexican, taking no interest whatsoever in the community, living constantly on the ragged edge of starvation, bringing countless numbers of undesirable citizens into the world with the reckless prodigality of rabbits’…. Mexican culture in Los Santos was carefully scrutinized in the 1920s and found wanting, subsequently Mexicans became the primary targets of discriminatory practices and programs. Protestant social activists of the time, saw their role as awakening the growing Anglo-American population of Los Santos to the dangers represented by poorer, ethnic newcomers to the region. Organized labor viewed Mexican immigrants as cheap competitors with “American” workers, they argued that Mexicans would not be content with farm labor and would soon attempt to enter the trades. Employers developed a practice in which immigrants were targeted and segregated into “gangs” according to their ethnic groups, with only the foreman as an English speaker, therefore keeping the undesirables in minor positions of labor, with the contention that “white” laborers would not and should not perform certain work. Florencia allegedly started near Florence and Atlantic and at one old point back in time they’ve actually said to have claimed the whole stretch of Forum Drive. Florencia 13, also known as the South Side Florence 13 or F13, is an infamous Hispanic Sureno street gang, with cliques spread throughout Los Santos County of San Andreas. They originated after World War II, during the late 1940s. Florence Avenue street was later renamed to Forum Drive in the 70s due to rising tensions between the local gang and a near East Coast Crip clique. The name Florence is pronounced Florencia in Spanish, and that's where the gang got its name from. This resulted in the gang adopting a 50's "doo-woop" song, "Florence" by The Paragons. The song was often requested by the gang members to let everybody know that Florencia members were posted up. The gang was first formed in the 40s as a neighborhood patrol to protect the Hispanic demographic against the much larger African-American street gangs at the time. Florencia ended up taking the "13" around the 1960s, which to public knowledge corresponds to the letter "M", which publicly announced their affiliation to the Mexican Mafia, over the years, many of the members of Mexican Mafia that ended up getting arrested over street wars were recruited into the ranks of the eMe due to earning their reputation for their ruthleness while fighting against multiple black gangs by themselves, in no time, they turned into one of most loyal and most important soldier for the prison organization. Florencia cliques are located ALL OVER in South Los Santos in a vast area patrolled by the Los Santos County Sheriff’s Department. As is the case with most Chicano street gangs, each individual clique possesses unique geographical boundaries that physically separate one territory from another. A breakdown of each Florencia clique reveals an indicator about its name origination, not only that, each one of them as their own way to dress up and act, the ones closer to South Central or Watts are known to this day rock blue bandanas and stay more old schools than the ones closer to blood sets, per example, cliques like Malos have adopted blood culture into their daily way of dressing and nowdays we see alot of them hanging red cloth around their necks and sport red Falcon's gear, not only that, but those were the cliques that front lined against the blood war that happened between Florencia 13 and East Coast Crips that took many lifes during the twenty year span that it lasted. Since the up rise of the Florencia 13 gang in recent years, LSPD has released a statement of an increase in gang activity and violence emerging in the South Side of Carson Avenue. Thirty-six-year-old Alfredo 'Maldito' Lopez is a known, high ranking member of the S/C Florencia 13 gang, and has links to one of the major cliques, the Malos. In 2015 Alfredo 'Maldito' Lopez bought himself a life sentence at San Andreas Correctional Facility when he shot down Asante "D-LOCC#3" Jackson at a block party in the East Side, Los Santos. D-LOCC#3, 25, at the time, was a known rival of the S/C Florencia 13 gang and murdered in cold-blood after attending a Birthday Party on Nikola Avenue, for a East Coast Crip gang member. Local law enforcement arrested 19-year-old Jimenez 'Baby Wicked' Santana and two other members from the Malos gang on a murder charge, 18-year-old, Tyquan Wilson tragically lost his life back in July 2020. LSPD has confirmed that this was a gang-related attack in control of Narcotics distribution in the East Vinewood vicinity. Jimenez 'Baby Wicked' Santanas, 19, Michael "Travieso" Hernandez, 16, and Samuel 'Wyno' Valez, 16 are currently awaiting trial and are being held at Los Santos County TTCF. Due to the increase of gang violence and activity within South Central, business owners and residents are fearing for their safety. Local stores are being vandalized with gang-affiliated graffiti and the local Police Department has had numerous calls of young teens stealing/loitering. Due to being surrounded by upper-middle-class citizens, Forum Drive has seen an increase in armed burglaries. Local residents from the neighborhood have mentioned they're too scared to leave their homes late at night as it is "getting out of control." Local youths in the area are said to attend Brouge High School. In 1999 the gang endured a lengthy injunction that lasted until 2001. The injunction resulted in the arrests, criminal charges and convictions of around 30 gang-bangers. Well over half of the convicted gangsters were deported back to Central America upon completion of their state prison sentences. A small number of them are still incarcerated in San Andreas state prisons to this day. The second formation of the gang happened in 2004 after the younger relatives of incarcerated members continued the gang's crimes in the streets. It was during this era that the gang moved back into Forum Drive, inhabiting and criminally operating out of the suburbs surrounding it. The gang has been present there ever since, and according to Los Santos police reports, has been steadily growing since 2010. Their crimes have also intensified, due to how the old gang-bangers have decided to implement a more violent culture into the new generation of Florencia 13, due to the size of their growth and the amount of turf they have managed to capture throughout the years plus the amounts of orders they took from Mexican Mafia, the older heads ordered that most of the new generation from any of the cliques that were under Florencia to not only train their younger members by sparking up local beefs in the nearest High Schools so common fights in the street would happen, but by spreading illegal firearms between all their members. With that done, the newest generation of Florencia turned into one of the most violent the gang as ever seen, most of their members would have to kill to be inducted into the street gang and that built a strong foundation and culture of tattoos within all the sets, gang injunctions wouldn't matter to them since going into jail was almost the final objective for them and they would take pride in that, having the clique/gang in their skin was a matter of pride and nobody would stop them from having that so you would see a major part of them having face and neck tattoos. Edited July 13, 2022 by SkanteVida27 26 Link to comment
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