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Leonard M. Pitt
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Emeritus Professor of History, California State University, Northridge. Author of The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. Co-author of Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County.

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Downtown Los Angeles skyline at dusk with tall buildings lit up and streaks of headlights and taillights from cars on the Harbor Freeway in the foreground.
Los Angeles , city, seat of Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It is the second most populous city and metropolitan area (after New York City) in the United States. The city sprawls across a broad coastal plain situated between mountains and the Pacific Ocean; the much larger Los Angeles…
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