 4 decades ago, this area of LA was populated by working-class whites who were segregated from the African American and Hispanic populations through discriminatory policies and practices such as blockbusting and redlining.Until the late 1960s, south-eastern LA was home to corporations such as General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, and Weiser Lock.During the 1970s and 1980s, the corporations began to close as the process of deindustrialization fundamentally changed where and how goods are produced.