@mimblewimble yes predominantly white, this is how I believe it turned out how it did, a lot of the families living there came from a neighbouring much rougher estate, a council estate formed after ww2, my family on mothers side was large, 8 siblings in total it was app encouraged after ww2, it was explained to me they were given a home as their ages meant after coming out of ww2 that had no money from work as were in the war, so houses were given out, large families were encouraged, they were all mostly devout catholics! Contraception was not favoured, I recall my mother talking about this being the issue, most families from there were big! Poor being post war famiiies, my line was farming this was no more after moving in to the suburbs near the towns. So we're taking 50-60s in to the 70-80s, council estate culture began with the estate community centres where everyone knows everyone else and everyone pretty much does what everyone else does. They spilled in to the closer town suburbs and bc their parents in the 50s then couldn't cope with so many kids they all left home fairly young knowing they'd get a council property if deemed homeless and those people are now in their late 50 to 60s and some of their kids my generation are doing the same.
With regards to other cultures, that area filled up with council and housing association families from all very similar backgrounds, it became in time as bad as the council estate their families came from, then what happens it becomes a poor run down area where the council put anyone else with no money in to like immigrants etc, they were there but when I was there most kept to themselves particularly Polish or Eastern Europeans and many did work. There was a large Pakistani community just outside of that town but again kept to themselves & out of the local culture i was a part of but there was racial issues mainly in my view kicked off by the white community, this bred a hatred on both sides, I took no part in that but was targeted by young Pakistani lads walking home from town from work but they were so young and I understood why they were sadly how they were, a lot of that now has died out, there were mixes of people from black race also but only very few and most again kept to themselves, but there were more from this race that would occ become involved with the white community gangs but back then the issue was mostly white. I've not lived there for a while now but I see a lot more diversity and a lot of the original problem people are much older now I think as time has passed those people and that gang culture has changed bc I don't think many had kids themselves that followers in their footsteps, many didn't have children or any that did have had very different characters of children or moved out of the area. It's interesting to see some of their children are clearly total opposite characters of the kids I grew up with, they were like their parents and then there were so many and this is how it can easily snowball in generations.
think unless you live there and understand the culture and why it appears how it does its easy to blame other ethnic minorities back then this wasn't stemming from foreigners it was the white culture post war, Asians and black people mostly kept to themselves.
But...when I look at the Leeds photos of this incident I do see many different ethnicities possibly European, Asian perhaps, of course in turn culture changes it is possible that some Asian children may have adopted some of the less favourable original British ways of life's in poorer areas and this is why you now see this with people of non white colour also.
But crux of it is that poor area, poor upbringings, children allowed to run riot and feral choosing their own life paths badly with no guidance and it all comes from poor uneducated areas and nowadays is of all colour