Is southern California still like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuyV6G6atoQ
No. LA is 11-16% white based on estimates.
>>2849057That water is colder than you want it to be.
>>2849064>>2849057That video is full of mixed people. California was never a white state. No idea how you delusional /pol/tards think it was lmao.
>>2849083never 100% white, but allowing 25M brown goblins to take up residence really changed the vibe and the scenery, basically sucks now for all but the top 1% earners
>>2849065having driven past enough farms and factories I do not trust the water in oceans at fucking all and would never swim in an ocean againI like swimming in rivers but you have to be very selective and only swim in small creeks or upstream above any major population centers or industrial activity for larger rivers
>>2849089Most of the year, California's rivers are dry. Only after a runoff event should you avoid contact with seawater (especially anywhere near the mouth of the Tijuana River.>>2849057Haven't been out there since March 2020, before COVID. The beach towns were very pleasant and full of street life, but as a van vagabond I knew I wasn't welcome to spend the night. The nearest dispersed camping is an hour plus drive away up in the coast range (which gets really cold at night in the winter months). Also, SoCal is more likely to be 63° than 83° in winter. Not really the kind of perfect beach weather that most people imagine, though it is great for jogging and climbing hills.
>>2849097>Most of the year, California's rivers are drythat's a shamea lot of swimming holes you aren't really swimming in a creek that's more than a foot or two deep for most of it - but there tends to be deep pools and the location of those tends to make for popular swimming areas - there's tons on the east coast and you can physically see if the water is gross or not