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Originally Posted by eschaton
Immediately after the Civil War the U.S. was highly integrated, particularly in the North, where small populations of black residents moved to just about every small town in the country. It was only in the late 19th/early 20th century, as America entered the "racial nadir" that the small-town/rural black population was driven into cities.
Something similar happened with the Chinese population. Chinatowns were not originally conventional immigrant enclaves. Chinese immigrants originally moved in high numbers into rural areas (they were often railroad workers after all) but later anti-Chinese racism forced them to retreat into cities for mutual defense.
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Interesting that it kinda just comes down to how people who live in cities generally like / tolerate living among people who are different from themselves and people who live in rural areas generally do not.
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