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Originally Posted by badrunner
Nobody lived in the Antelope Valley or South OC in 1920. Almost that entire 997k figure would have been in the LA basin + SGV and SF valley streetcar suburbs. I mean, SoCal is pretty much the prototype American suburbia, and by the 1920s it was already a sprawling auto-oriented metropolis.
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LA County had 932k (Orange would definitely be out in 1920) and you had lots of farming communities back then and the county is huge. As those pre-1950 metro areas definitions were not county-based, I'd guess metro Los Angeles at 850k or so.
@wwmiv could you help us out?
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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Where are you getting this number? The document source I linked to has no number for 1920.
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That's the sum of Los Angeles and Orange counties population in 1920.