What do you think they mean? A neighborhood with a high crime rate? Racism?
For me, I usually think they mean a certain race that mainly lives there, because Yuno.. Mexican families aren't very fond of any other race other than Americans.
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Where I live it usually means it's a bad neighbourhood due to a high paramilitary presence or because of a high presence of prats/shmicks, not because of any particular race or nationality.