THIS is what drives Geography Majors Bat-shit Crazy

Now you may say that the drive to Bat-Shit Crazy town isn't too long in my case under the best of circumstances, and you would be right.  Be that as it may, this drives me nuts.  The NY Times has amazing graphics and maps - I have said often.  And I have repeated them here.
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Today's map is (on the whole) equally perfect.  It accompanies an article about the rise of a unique Asian-American-California culture that is different from anything else in the world.  Having grown up as a citizen in an early adopter city of this culture (Gardena), I totally agree.
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So what is to bitch about?  Well, this graphic, which on the whole very cool.  It shows the areas of the largest increase in share of population from 2000 - 2010 for Asians, Whites,  Hispanics and Other (looking at it - I would extrapolate "other" as being African- American).  It is a cool map with one problem.
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The problem? The dot marked Los Angeles isn't Los Angeles.  As a matter of fact that dot is about THE ONLY AREA THAT ISN'T LOS ANGELES.  The dot is Beverly Hills, which is surrounded by LA (with the tiny exception of West Hollywood which borders BH on the upper east side, and is also surrounded by LA.  And it isn't like Los Angeles is some hard to define entity.  It is the second biggest city in America.
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1/2 inch to the left and you are in West LA, which is part of Los Angeles - put the dot there.  1/2 an inch to the right and you are in Mid-Wilshire, also in Los Angeles - put the dot there.  1/2 inch down and you are in Palms, also in LA.  1/2 inch up and you are in Bel-Air, also in LA.  1 1/2 inches to the right and you are in Downtown LA.  1 inch up and you are in The Valley, also LA.  In fact, well, you get the idea - you could put the damn dot nearly anywhere else and be correct about Los Angeles.
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In order to make the cities to the East stand out (San Marino, San Gabriel, etc.), the graphic artist (Haeyoun Park) decided to plop LA farther west.  And, rather than choose any semi-city that was part of Los Angeles, he chose Beverly Hills - which is NOT part of LA.
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And it shouldn't bug me, but then neither should speeling bug Ed, or phrasyology bug Jocelyn - but they do two.