Editing Greater Los Angeles (section)

===Identity===
Employment is not only in the [[downtown Los Angeles|downtown]] area, but consistently occurs outside the central core. As such, many people commute throughout the city and suburbs in various directions for their work and daily activities, with a large portion heading to the municipalities that are outside the city of Los Angeles.<ref name="Wolch">{{cite book|last=Wolch|first=Jennifer R.|author2=Manuel Pastor |author3=Peter Dreier |title=Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis|year=2004|isbn=978-0-8166-4298-4}}</ref>

Unlike most metropolitan areas, regional identity remains a contentious issue in the Greater Los Angeles area, with many residents not acknowledging any association with the region as a whole. For example, while Los Angeles County and [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] together make up the smaller MSA region, the two host many sub-areas that each have sharp demographic, political, and financial distinctions. South Orange County residents often attempt to be identified apart from Los Angeles although they make up the same metropolitan area. Also, while only 1.63% of Los Angeles residents commute to Orange County for work, over 6% of Orange County commuters head to Los Angeles for work.<ref>{{cite web|title=Orange County to County Commuting|url=http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/commute-maps/orancommute.pdf|work=Labor Market Information Division|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721071437/http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/commute-maps/orancommute.pdf|archive-date=July 21, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Western Riverside County and San Bernardino County have become commuter regions characteristic of other suburban counties throughout the nation. Residents in these counties often commute to Los Angeles County and Orange County for employment.<ref>{{cite web|title=Riverside County is 'extreme commute' king|url=http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/03/31/news/californian/0_39_333_31_05.txt|work=North County Times|access-date=August 17, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907195411/http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/03/31/news/californian/0_39_333_31_05.txt|archive-date=September 7, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>