https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/30/opinion-dont-count-californians-out-and-dont-dance-on-our-graves/ > My father’s family came here from Austria in 1896. My grandparents, David and Ida, settled in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, where they raised my dad and his brother. > I was born in downtown LA in 1948, the first child of working-class parents who spent their entire lives in Southern California.