Check out the similarity between this map indicating the presence of unvaccinated children on the West Side of Los Angeles (hat tip: Instapundit) with this map of medical marijuana dispensaries on the West Side of Los Angeles, which, by the way, doesn’t seem to include data for the separate incorporated city of Santa Monica. Quite some similarity, eh? The enlightened folk on the West Side seem to believe that marijuana is good for you and vaccinations aren’t.
Now combine a look at this map, the New York Times’s excellent interactive graphic Mapping the Census, click on California and zero in on the West Side of Los Angeles. On “view more maps,” click on white population. You’ll see that the West Side has (or had in 2010) just about the greatest white percentage of any part of metro Los Angeles. So West Siders, who eschew 1950s America’s acceptance of vaccinations and abhorrence of marijuana, also most closely resemble the racial characteristics of what we look back on as white-bread America. Interesting.
