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Old 05-09-2018, 12:40 AM   #146 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by slowmover View Post
You’re ignoring the elephant in the living room. The people who built America’s cities were driven out of them by 1970.
Driven out? Hardly. They were lured out by the promise of being able to afford a better place to live than crowded urban tenements. It's a process that was under way well before automobiles became common, as larger cities built commuter railroads & subway systems.
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