"Literally a dumpsite for Los Angeles' garbage, Carson didn't become incorporated until 1968, when working-class black residents decided to form a new city. But while powerful industries now call Carson home, including the BP refinery that provides a third of the gasoline used in Southern California, the city is cash poor. Carson is considered the most ethnically and racially rich medium-sized city in California—its residents are evenly divided among black, Latino, white and Asian. But it has a $200 million annual budget dwarfed by such cities as Santa Monica, with a $435 million annual budget for a smaller population of 84,000. "
In the LA Weekly, Jorge Casuso investigates the sad state of city government in Carson, California.
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