 California's racial demographics are changing quickly. So what impact could it have on that state's future? Yeah, we gotta talk about it because the SF Chronicle just dropped a huge scientific algorithmic interactive map called the charts show extremely detailed look in the California's changing population. Andrew, look at these circles. You've got white, you've got black, you've got American Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander, and Hispanic. However, I will be honest, the only bubbles that seem big are essentially the white bubbles, the black bubbles, the Asian bubble, and the Latino bubble. So those are your major demographics. However, Andrew, I will say that some trends are clear. White people are moving out of California and Latinos and Asians are moving into California. Or could it also be that white people are mixing into California? Make sure you like, subscribe, and turn on your notifications, Andrew, real quick. 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You know, surf, more, surfer bros, Barbie, Ken, Malibu. California, California, California, California, California. Black people, California love. Dr. Dre and Tupac, I'm not gonna do the impression. California dreaming, I step on stage, I hear a hoochie screaming. Asians, they probably got two songs that I'm, because we're more familiar with the Asian world. Andrew, back in the day, it was a top off the ride, there's a party going on in every corner, that's why I gotta be in California. But then the new one is probably in like, 88 Rising, the last night I lost all, my patience. I think we're also forgetting about the, from Asia song though, which would probably be more defined by K-pop. I don't know what song that would be, but anyways. Super Shy, for sure. Right now, I'm telling you, you play Super Shy in a club, it's lit, in the Asian club at least. And then the Mexicans, Andrew, they have a ton of, or Latinos, they have a lot of mariachi music, a lot of reggaeton is really popular in California. Obviously the reason why you, you know, it's common to refer to the Hispanics in California as Mexican, obviously they're not all Mexican, but most of them are. Yes, 31% of the entire state of California is Mexican. And the next two biggest groups, I believe Guatemala and Salvador and Andrew are coming in at like two to 3% of the total state. So California is a very, very Mexican state. Yeah, it's quite a bit of Salvadoran. So I used to work with a lot of Salvadorans over at Nordstrom when I used to work there. Yeah, you know what's really interesting, Andrew? This study is very granular because they targeted 100 different white groups, 58 black groups, 41 Asian groups, 31 different Pacific Islanders. So it matters if you're Samoan, Guamania, Micronesian and 22 Hispanic groups and 1,000 American Indian or Alaskan native tribes. So Andrew, basically this study is incredibly what they call in science granular. They have it down to the specific type of white, Andrew, whether you're English descent or your German. David, you know what else is granular is smaller sauce. There's actually grains at the bottom that you have to mix up anyways. Shameless plug, but yeah, let's keep it going, David. I guess this is really interesting for people because a lot of people like to talk about California. We used to live in California. The changing demographics. I mean, pretty much the ethnic populations are growing. The, what is known to be white population is slowly decreasing. I had to get out of there. I'm moving to Arizona or Texas or Florida. I'm getting out of there. It's so funny they call that white flight. I think that's like the weirdest term to, because it's like white people flying out. Right, right, right. I mean, I guess it's, yeah, white flight is a term that was typically typified, I want to say, in the 60s, 70s, 80s, talking about leaving the city to go to the suburbs, right? Should we go look and focus a little bit more on the breakdown of Asians here? Yeah, I mean, this is what this channel primarily focuses on, you know, we had to give you the macro big picture view. I think maybe something that was interesting real quick once we take it back to the birds eye, Andrew, was how low the African-American population was. I saw a lot of comments about that, yeah. Did you know that California was only 4% black-American? Yeah, but does that including people of mixed black heritage? Because I think there's a lot of mixed people in California. But I guess people who purely identify as only African-American, I guess it is that small. I didn't realize it. I thought there was more. Because we lived in LA, LA has quite a few, the Bay Area, but maybe outside of those areas, not that much. We play a lot of basketball, guys. I'm telling you, the court ain't 4% black. When you're at the bad, when you're at LA Fitness at 24. I'll say this, the largest ethnic Asian group in every county, let's take a look at this, Andrew. So primarily you got Filipinos out in more like inland empire, more in like central California, near San Diego, it's very Filipino. LA is very Chinese. The Bay Area is extremely Chinese. And then Mong is up there by the Fresno zone, right? More in Northern California, like even above the Bay, as well as in Fresno, I'm sorry. And then, yeah, actually, this is a really interesting map. It doesn't kind of go to show you that it makes sense. Chinese are primarily in the Bay Area in LA. Filipinos are big everywhere else. And Indians are really big in a county called Madeira. I didn't even know that. Let's take a look at California's Asian-American population in 1980, shifting over to 2020. As you can see, the Bay Area is getting way hotter and as well as LA, specifically more like San Gabriel Valley and Orange County probably saw the biggest jump. Right, right, right. What do you think about Orange County, Andrew? A lot of people are moving there because they want to get out of LA because Orange County is a little bit more straight laced. No, it's less metropolis too. It's going to be less packed. It's less dense. It gives you a good kind of in between of suburban and urban. LA is very much a city. It's like an urban sprawl, but I think OC is even a little bit more manageable. I've heard from a number of our friends, Andrew, that they were saying, if I ever had to move from where I'm at, I would move to the OC. I've started to hear that a lot in the past five years. And let me tell you this, the OC, it does run by slightly different rules. And you know what's interesting enough? OC is also the one district that is Vietnamese-dominant ethnically for Asians in the whole state of California. It's the only one where that's the largest Asian group, Asian-alone group. And I also heard it's like maybe more Republican too. Yeah, no, it's nice. I mean, you're not going to... It's not going to be the city. It's not going to be the city there, right? Somebody, let's go to the Californians with Asian ancestry, Andrew. It goes Chinese for East Asian at 1.8 million. Then we have Koreans at around 600,000. Japanese at 480,000. But interestingly enough, Andrew, the Japanese group was the most likely to declare that they were mixed with something else. Right, right, right. And they're mixed with... They said everything from white to black to Islander to Samoan to obviously Pacific Islander because there's a lot of Japanese in Hawaii that mixed with the Hawaiians there as well. And then we have Taiwanese that got counted as a separate group, Mongolian and Okinawan. So they're that granular, Andrew. They separated Okinawan out of Japanese. 2000 Okinawans, I didn't know that. Andrew, amongst the Southeast Asians, we have Filipinos coming in at 1.7 million. Vietnamese at about 800,000. And then it goes Cambodians at 120,000. Hmong at 110,000. Thai, Laotian, Indonesian, Burmese, Malaysian. Yo, that's crazy how few Thai people there are in California and how many Thai restaurants there are. Right, like even if you put Thai and Lao together, because I know that a lot of Thai restaurants are actually run by Lao families, you're saying that Thai restaurants are still just way over-represented. Yeah, and I wonder if the Thai... Could you count as multiple people if you're a Chinese Thai person? You'd probably count yourself as Thai. I would say so because the Chinese Thais that I know, even though they look Chinese, they mostly just speak Thai. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Moving on to South Asian Andrew, Indian came in in California at about 900,000. Then Pakistani came in at 75,000. Nepalese, Sri Lankan, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese. As you can see, the jump in certain counties like Santa Clara County was tremendous in terms of where the growth is at. You know, the extrapolated trends, whites went way down in Santa Clara County. This is a particular county in the Bay Area. Moving on, Andrew, what do you think about California being 31% Mexican? Man, that's a lot. That's why the food, the Mexican food is so good and so cheap there. Yeah, I have been told by even Mexicans that they just love the food in California. I, yeah, I mean, you can see it. Obviously, like you roll by, it's everywhere. I mean, even a lot of, obviously, a lot of California's names are in Spanish, so obviously that's- Shout out to Lolo Felix. That was the California anthem. Obviously, I'm not saying that's representative of everybody. I'm just saying that had the most hits on YouTube. And he's like, Es California, vatos hermanos. English and German Californians come in second, and then 9%, 9%, and then 8% Irish. So that's how the white breaks down. Are you surprised that white people even knew what their genetic makeup was? Because I found that a lot of white people don't know. I guess German, English, Irish is not a bad guess, though, because those are the primary, probably white bloodlines in America, right? Yeah, I mean, I probably just went with what they mostly are primarily, yeah. Moving on, Andrew. Did you know that San Francisco County is 22% Chinese? Whoa! SF County. You know, when you go land at SFO, which is the airport, there's a bunch of Cantonese people working at the airport, which is not what you see at other airports. Yo, everybody from like security to the TSA to the janitor, to the people working at the sushi thing. They're like all Chinese are Filipino. They're all Cantonese are Filipino, that's it. Yeah, that is a good point. This is another map, Andrew, from the SF Chronicle, saying that Sacramento is the most similar demographically to the Midwest. So basically they were assigning different counties in California like a relative culture out on the mid-coast or on the east coast. And they said that LA and SF are obviously more like the northeast, but Sacramento was more like the Midwest. Interesting. Yeah, and they said obviously Northern California, Andrew, is more like the south. Oh, more like the south. No, no, no, not NorCal, but like I'm talking about like Northern, Northern, like bordering Oregon, California. I think Reddington and there's like, yeah, there's those spots. Yeah, ultimately, Andrew, these were just the graphs from the San Francisco Chronicle. I got a couple quick thoughts though. I think it goes to show you that cultural impact punching power, like how much of a punch you pack per person, per capita in soft power, it could really skew the way people think, because let's say for example, Andrew, you primarily follow sports media entertainment, right? Sports fields where African-Americans have a lot of representation in. You might think that California for sure is defined by like Tupac or Kobe Bryant. You might think that California is way more than 4%. And you would not think that California was that much Asian necessarily, unless you're tapped in to the Asian enclave, like AZN scene. Right, right, right. Because different groups, regardless of their population ratio, in terms of how much they impact, I guess like the overall like pop cultural narrative could be more or less, right? Yeah, and everybody has their own bubbles too. I mean, like you said, if you just consume, I mean, a lot of people think California is just part of Mexico, especially the Southern part. And that's totally like you could easily say that too. Right, right. Well, I grew up in like four towns that were like all Mexican. Yeah. But then people, somebody'd be like, nah, dude, I'm from like Laguna Beach. As far as I know, it's like all white dudes like me, like we're all chilling. So it's really interesting. It's very, very diverse based on whatever like fishbowl you're in, right? I guess for me Andrew, now that Chinese make up such a large proportion of the Asians in California, do you kind of wish like, maybe they had a bigger cultural impact? Because I would certainly say that Koreans are way more culturally impactful than Chinese. In a like a soft power set. Yeah, I would say seeing as how the Chinese outnumber the Koreans. And by the way, it's not like a battle for anything, but I would say for sure the Koreans are punching above their weight as far as influence and soft power in California. Obviously LA, as we know, the LA County has the most Koreans outside of Korea. That's significant, right? But for China, I mean, for Chinese, there is a lot of Chinese in between LA and NorCal, but I think that Chinese people, you know, as we can talk about forever is like, they don't fully come together of all the different provinces to do one thing. You know, we have the six to six night market, which is heavily Chinese based, but it's not really a Chinese. I mean, it is a Chinese. And also, I mean, it was based off the Shilin night market. It is owned and run by Taiwanese. It's actually inspired by the Taiwanese, right? But including all Chinese. And I just think like, I guess that the question might be like, will Chinese use their numbers to build something that everyone else wants to partake in? Cause I think everybody who wants to check out K-Towns, they're curious, right? All different races. Well, they seem like something worth checking out. Like it's going to be a fun time. You're going to see hot guys, hot girls, all types of things. But not everybody is flocking to the six to six to go see what that's about. Even though the Boba game, 10 out of 10 there. Yeah. I guess Boba is kind of that product that's reaching everybody. You know what I think about Chinese people is like, every country has a different level of like, sort of consuming Western culture or how Western they want to be. Everybody, every Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines, everybody's going mix and match, right? And there's also some geopolitical factors that are out of people's controls. But like, I feel like Chinese people, they sort of build a lot of structures that they would have back in China. Like really delicious restaurants and things like that. But they don't necessarily try to replicate Western things like nightclubs or entertainment spheres. I mean, I think it's funny that I can't personally think of a singular, solely Chinese based nightclub. In California. In California that I can think of. No. And you have all this Chinese people. I'm not saying there has to be 10 of them, but I can't really think, I know there's bars that are more Chinese, but I can't think of an actual nightclub that's solely Chinese. Even for the immigrants, like the FOB international. And the truth is, I just don't think the party culture is that organized or that deep. No, it's really not. And it is what it is. There's good and bad to that too, to be honest. What do you think about the Asian and Latino population rising so much, Andrew? Obviously, like we said before, the heritage populations of America that have typically defined the polar ends of an Americana spectrum are white America and black America. If California sort of exists outside of it, like as it becomes increasingly Latino and increasingly Asian, right? Because the Latinos can bring everything from Univision to reggaeton to all these things that are south of the border, whether it's Mexican or not. And then the Asians, they can tap into everything that's happening in the East, East, East. Right, right, right. So I think that that's really interesting where it's almost like that's where you see these more like cultural movements arising out of. It is California, I think specifically for these newly arrived immigrant groups in the 1970s. Of course, I'm just speaking in terms of large numbers. So anyway, this guy said, did you know that half the black American population still exists in the South? That's why everybody was like, oh, I was surprised that 4%, that was so low for California. 50% of the American black population still resides in the South. Oh, that's interesting, that's a lot. Yeah. Makes sense though out of all those Southern states. Ultimately, Andrew, we just went through some infographics, SF Chronicle. They didn't really put anything like have too many crazy takeaways from it. But obviously, as the demographics change inevitably, in my opinion, the culture will change, right? Yeah, for sure. I mean, more people eating tacos even just on a like a shallow base level. I mean, there's a lot more Spanish being spoken. I do hope that there's also a lot of English being spoken and learned too as well. And I think that's gonna be helpful. But I think California is gonna progressively look like, feel like a different place than a lot of places in America. And I think that's a lot of Republicans usually use that as like a kind of a talking point. Usually as like a, as a reason to poke at Democrats. Like, you know, when I was growing up, it was like beach boys. And now I look down the street and all I see is carne asada and young Rotoir in the air everywhere. Yeah, I don't know. But I think California is an interesting place because it's so big, climate's so good, lots of great farmland, super diverse, has some really great industries, techs based out of there, wine, country, entertainment, tons of other things, you know. And so, I don't know. Probably the best weather to be honest. Oh, in America. Generally accepted as the best weather. They actually, yeah, California actually has a, at least LA has a Mediterranean climate. So it's very great for like growing stuff. That's why it's so good for wine. And the bay is very temperate in the sense of like it never too hot, never too cold. Not super cold. When it rains, it's not too rainy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I mean, you know, it's really, really interesting, man. And it's dope to see what everybody does. I'd love to see even more collaboration. You know, I haven't seen a good Asian, oh, well obviously you have the bulgogi tacos Korean and Mexican, but I haven't seen a Chinese Mexican Collabo yet. Not that they don't work in the same spot sometimes, but I'm saying I haven't seen a product like a culinary product emerging. Something that really became a mainstream because everybody's using doing bulgogi tacos now. We actually knew I met this Mexican chef who grew up in Mexicali and then he had was an adobada cantonessa, but you know, it didn't fully take off, but you know, he had the red Cantonese pork for tacos. Yeah, really good food in California though. Amazing. Honestly, earth shockingly good for the price guys. Anyway guys, let us know what you guys think of the changing demographics of California in the, you know, in the comment section below. Let us know how you think things will change and check out the interactive graph from the SF Chronicle. Until next time, we're gonna hop up boys, we out. Peace.