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I Am Legend, the novel, takes place in Compton/South LA. During this time, these regions were experiencing a large demographic shift and it was the period of white flight in these communities.

Vampires are a metaphor for the draining of life from things. They hoard wealth and drain wealth from the community around them.

Are the vampires in I Am Legend just black people? It makes the book seem kind of disgusting if it's a story of a lone white guy going around killing black people. In the novel, it turns out that the vampires aren't undead and they are building their own culture. it seems like the story is just a metaphor for the anxieties that led to white flight.