County revenue dependence aligned with racial-geographic segregation

Evidence

Kings County, which is about 65 percent white, has five members on the Board of Supervisors. At the time of El Pueblo’s appeal, all the board members were white. Most white residents in Kings County live in one area, while most of the Latinos live in another part of the County. If this page were a map of Kings County, almost all the white people would live up in the upper right corner of the page, in and around the county seat of Hanford. And most of the Latino people would live at the bottom of the page—Kettleman City would be in the lower left of the page, and the Chem Waste dump would be next to it. Every single town in Kings County is majority white except for Kettleman City, which is 95 percent Latino, way down in the lower left of the page. Under the California law that provides for compensated siting, Kings County was receiving about 7 million per year in revenue from Chem Waste’s preexisting dump. That 7 million was about 8 percent of the County’s annual budget. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 80

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Municipal boundary lines perpetuate racial and class segregation — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 1349; Racialized structures distribute resources and access by race — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1828; Racial inequality shapes American tax outcomes, not just marriage, housing, and wages. (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Municipal boundary lines perpetuate racial and class segregation #expands (0.85) — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 1349
• Racialized structures distribute resources and access by race #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1828
• Racial inequality shapes American tax outcomes, not just marriage, housing, and wages. #expands (0.85)
• Race-neutral tax reforms perpetuate racial wealth gaps unless they account for societal racism #expands (0.80) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 70
• Neutral policies can produce racial disparities through disproportionate group exposure #expands (0.80)