Bell Gardens

The southeast cities, including South Gate, Bell and Bell Gardens, once mostly white, are now about 90% Latino.

Perez, 62, lived one door away from Juan in Bell Gardens.

In Bell Gardens, at least, he lived in a run-down apartment building; he drove a Honda Accord and a Chevrolet Silverado.

In Los Angeles County, a Times map of the November election results showed that the biggest drift toward Trump didn’t happen in Republican strongholds but in purple, middle-class Latino cities like Downey and Whittier and blue-collar, Democratic-run, overwhelmingly immigrant communities like Bell Gardens and Maywood.

The Trump bump between the two elections was 28.6 points in Bell, 27.3 points in Bell Gardens and 24.1 points in Huntington Park.