r/AskHistorians • u/Emergency-Sea-7464 • 2d ago
What happened to white urban poverty? like in pre World War Two New York, Boston, and other major metropolitan areas in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries?
I know that in the early 20th century there were many Italian, Jewish, Irish, and Eastern European slums and I’m just wondering what exactly happened that led to the extinction of concentrated white urban poverty?
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