For example, scholars have written about Asian-Latino political cooperation in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles county during the past decade. Recognizing thei] shared interest in fighting discrimina-1lon ana pallerns OI political exclusion, these two groups have joined forces to defeat discriminatory local ordinances and secure favorable state assembly and senate redistricting plans (Fong, 1994; Horton 1995; Saito 1994, 1988). Similarly, in New York City in the early l990s, Asian Americans, Latinos, and blacks formed a multiracial coalition to promote a redistricting plan that linked Chinatown to the predominantly Puerto Rican and black Lower East Side. Although the issue-oriented and temporary rather than enduring, identify different prerequisites. In their view, residential propinquity (local spaces of interaction in which individuals from different groups develop relationships and trust) and relative parity in status and resources (eg, citizenship and education) are the most important factors. By these measures, Asian Americans are most likely to form alliances with whites, Latinos, and blacks, in that order.