A Wine Country city has a segregation problem FacebookTwitterEmail St. Helena is a city of 6,100 people in an area with more than 400 vineyards. It’s also where housing policies have concentrated Latino residents on the east side while a more affluent, white majority lives on the west side.Josie Norris / The Chronicle 2019 Marcus Kirkwood was riding his bike through St. Helena last month when he noticed a man take a photo of him from the sidewalk. Kirkwood at first wrote it off as poor timing. Maybe the man was taking a picture of a house across the street. Kirkwood turned his bike around and asked. The man told him he often took photos in St. Helena of things that he found “suspicious.” He meant Kirkwood.