
#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues
The Martyr Made Podcast
The Origins of Anti-Semitism
Southern Blacks had a similar experience when they arrived in the Northern cities. There was also a general prejudice against rural Southerners who were perceived by Yankees to be rowdy, vulgar and ignorant. This attitude really came out during the 1930s when the dust bowl sent migrations of displaced southern white farmers out to California looking for migrant farm work. The old TV show The Beverly Hillbillies about an Appalachian family who struck at rich in oil and moved out to the big city is a humorous take on what for many years was one of the more open forms of bigotry in the country.
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