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In reply to the discussion: So, what "Shithole" country did your ancestors come from? [View all]ProfessorGAC
(65,044 posts)100. Very Different Experience Here
I'll grant that I grew up in a factory city (around 75,000) people that was quite diverse.
Italians were hardly scarce enough that anybody thought a thing about an Italian neighbor. Practically every neighborhood had some Italians, polish, slavs, you name it. I admit the vast majority of AA citizens lived on the east side of the river, but definitely not all. Plenty of black students went to the west side HS
So, you can probably surmise why I did not hear the kind of stuff you did. Town was pretty broadly diverse
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I never understood why you left. The neighborhood went to hell and back afterwards. Now you can't
politicaljunkie41910
Jan 2018
#83
I beg to differ. "Shinola" the shoe polish came first before the luxury goods Shinola Detroit
politicaljunkie41910
Jan 2018
#144
Italy and Ireland. I got DNA from Other Shitholes, I mean, Garden Spots
TheOther95Percent
Jan 2018
#91
Lithuania (or Russia, depending on the year and the borders) and White Russia
no_hypocrisy
Jan 2018
#101
Scots-Irish from Northern Ireland in mid 1700s (paternal) & 1700s From England (maternal).
CottonBear
Jan 2018
#119
Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you?! Stupid!
Algernon Moncrieff
Jan 2018
#129