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Old Posted Jan 10, 2011, 10:50 PM
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Yes - Southall is different from the average London neighbourhood - if such a thing exists - about 70% of London's population is white, but only about 10% of Southall's population is white.

It's part of a fairly well-repeated pattern of immigration in London - London's East End used to be dominated by French protestant (Huguenot) immigrants in the 17th/18th centuries. There are few signs of their community left in the East End now (one of their churches has famously become first a synagogue and then a mosque), but an estimated 25% of Londoners today have Huguenot ancestors.
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