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Originally Posted by jyl
Our image of the 1920s is largely formed by movies and popular historical accounts. Poor people are not, typically, the topics of either. There was desperate poverty then. The urban slums were real cesspools, some rural conditions rivaled feudal times, and then there was the lives of Negroes and other minorities . . . It wasn't all an F. Scott Fitzgerald world.
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"some rural conditions rivaled feudal times"
This is the case in a lot of small towns in the Midwest right now.