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POTOMAC, MD LIKE SIMI VALLEY--the Los Angeles suburb where a jury acquitted the four police officers accused in the Rodney King beating--Potomac is a suburban paradise...
...demographic disparity between my hometown and D.C. is similar to--and in some respects greater than--that between Simi Valley and L.A. In Ventura County, where Simi Valley is located, the population is 66 percent white, two percent Black, five percent Asian and 26 percent Hispanic. L.A. is 44 percent white, 11 percent Black, 11 percent Asian and 34 percent Hispanic. (Reporting discrepancies account for the 100-plus percentages...
...sickened city, however, remained touched by submerged tension as a court ordered a retrial for L.A.P.D. officer Laurence Powell on the leftover charge of excessive force, the only count not dismissed by the Simi Valley jury in the Rodney King trial. The judge also invited the prosecution and defense to present their arguments this week on the possibility of returning the trial to Los Angeles...
Meanwhile, Simi Valley -- 80% white, 13% Hispanic, 5% Asian, only 2% black -- is a pristine bedroom community of just over 100,000, where the average price of a home is $230,000. Much of it is so fresh-out-of-the-cellophane new that in some shopping malls the trees are not yet shade size. "We can see some urban pressures like graffiti start to spring up," says Mayor Greg Stratton, but he stresses that "among towns over 100,000, Simi Valley is one of the two safest communities...
...befits the site of Ronald Reagan's Presidential Library, Simi Valley also votes overwhelmingly Republican. The Los Angeles riots have made the problems of the cities an issue to be reckoned with in this year's election campaigns. But the 1992 presidential election will also be the first in which suburbanites are a majority of the voters -- up from just 36% in 1968, when the white backlash against the ghetto riots of that era helped elect Richard Nixon. What Nixon understood then, and what a great deal of state and federal policy has reflected since then, is that the suburbs...