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> If you look back at your history, you'll see that this only applied to the already wealthy part of the US for the most part This happy state of affairs was d
by User23 8y ago
> If you look back at your history, you'll see that this only applied to the already wealthy part of the US for the most part
This happy state of affairs was during the adulthood of the generation that grew up during the depression. The vast majority of the US population was poor, including those living in the cities.
> for the most part the white people only.
The USA was something like 95% white at the time, so how is this a helpful contribution to the conversation?
- evgen 8y ago> The USA was something like 95% white at the time, so how is this a helpful contribution to the conversation? Is it really so hard to do simple research? In 1945 African-Americans were 10% of the population vs the current 12.6%.
- jgoodhcg 8y ago20th century white population had a maximum of 89%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic_demographics_of_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_racial_and_ethnic...