Posted Jan 4, 2024, 4:01 PM
|
 |
Plenary pleasures.
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: CHI/MRY
Posts: 4,680
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by galleyfox
No, the East Coast media frenzy over Chicago did not begin over economics.
When the major East Coast media attacks on Chicago first began, Chicago was still a smaller city than St. Louis, New Orleans, Boston, Philadelphia, and not even in the same galaxy as NYC.
NYC media in particular starts picking on Chicago over politics. The politics in question being so awful that modern NYC does not like to acknowledge why Chicago got so embroiled in a rivalry.
Chicago was a hard core abolitionist city. NYC was more pro-slavery.
The Winter stuff came from Chicago itself and was popularized by other Midwest cities. Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis and others loved to roast each other for fun in the newspapers. All the time. “Windy City” was a Cincinnati joke referencing how Chicago could never shut up during a Newspaper spat and that Chicagoans would brag and brag and brag some more about Chicago followed by complaining, complaining, complaining.
https://www.historynet.com/the-day-n...ied-to-secede/ |
WILD to think that NYC was politically pro-slavery, even for a very short period of time. I was ignorant of that history, thanks for sharing.
__________________
Don't be shy. Step into the light.
|
Threaded Mode