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Originally Posted by jbermingham123
Painful as it may be to think about this, we must remember that this wasnt a niche group of white people. or a niche group of suburbs.
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An uncomfortable truth that many don't like to acknowledge.
As a generic white-ethnic mutt with deep Chicago roots, when I was born (in the burbs) in '76, I still had plenty of blood relatives living on the Southside (my paternal lineage is mostly Southside Irish going back to the 19th century).
By 2000 there were zero, that I knew of*.
To hear some people tell it, the reason why legacy central cities lost anywhere from 60 - 95% of their white populations in the latter half of the 20th century had to do with everything
EXCEPT race.
(*) It's possible there's some 2nd cousin thrice removed still hanging on in Beverly or something, but the connection has been lost to time.
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Originally Posted by jbermingham123
The offshoring of manufacturing a couple decades later was just the cherry on top in the decimation of american cities.
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Don't forget about the second part of the deindustrialization 1-2 punch: automation.
A lot of shit is still made in America's industrial heartland, it's just that most of it no longer requires anywhere close to the same level of human labor as it once did decades ago.