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#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues

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The History of New York City Politics

When waves of immigration crashed into America in the mid and late 19th century, they hit New York City first. And so each wave was felt very dramatically and permanently changed the nature of the place. This happened basically once a generation from the founding of the country. First it was the Irish trying to elbow their way into a wasp power structure. Then it was Jews and Italians coming in after the Irish had taken over. It really was up until the 60s or 70s, a working class city since then industrial workers have been pretty much run out of town.

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