L.A. Blacks Leaning Toward Latino Mayoral Hopeful.

If Antonio Villaraigosa wins a runoff election Tuesday to become the first Latino mayor here in modern times, he will likely owe much of his victory to a surprising constituency: black voters.

Surprising because of the long history of unease and mistrust between this fractious city's two largest minority groups -- and a sense, articulated by some African Americans, that political and economic gains by the fast-growing Hispanic community came at the expense of their own.

(5-15-05, The Washington Post.)