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Coastal Californians of Color Feel Inland Empire's Lure

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KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

"My ideas about the Inland Empire have always been seeded with a prickly skepticism" writes Tyrone Beason in the latest installment of his L.A. Times series, "My Country." But as Beason immersed himself in the vast region, he discovered a bygone California of orange trees and wild burros that's drawing more and more people of color who are escaping expensive and predominantly white coastal cities. We'll talk to Beason about his journeys in the Inland Empire and how migration is reshaping the region racially, politically and culturally. Guests: Tyrone Beason, staff writer, Los Angeles Times - His recent piece for the Times is "In the vastness of the Inland Empire, people of color find ‘peace in these troubled times.’" Fatima Nelson, recent Inland Empire transplant; community engagement specialist, UC Riverside’s Center for Social Innovation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mountains and bone-dry arroyos, orange groves up against busy through streets, warehouses,

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and deeply contented new transplants.

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That's some of what L.A. Times staff writer Ty Beeson encountered as he explored California's vast

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inland empire, a region that's becoming home to more and more people of color who've left

1:49.4

costly white majority coastal cities. We'll talk with Beeson about the IE Ariana Prail in Ferm. My ideas about the inland empire have always been

2:22.2

seated with a prickly skepticism, writes Tyrone Beeson in the latest installment of his L.A. time

2:27.2

series, My Country. But as Beeson immersed himself in the vast region, he discovered a

2:32.2

bygone California of orange trees and wild burrows

2:35.2

that's drawing more and more people of color to its more affordable living. In fact, while California

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