Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "The London that once was, in memory of a lost city" video.
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It's much the same fabrications and myths that they peddle in the US, starting in the 1970s, claiming that a large majority was everywhere before 1916, especially in the cities, and going back to the founding of the US. The truth is, the north was rather spare of their population.
Their population was the highest starting in Maryland and Virginia, and below the Mason Dixon Line, especially along the river valleys and flat land. They were low in number in the mountainous Appalachian regions. The farthest west they were was mid-Texas.
There was a line of counties through what became West Virginia, and just across the Ohio River, in Ohio, where a few river counties had a higher number over the underground railroad. Not many were north of that.
When they did migrate over the Great Migration, which occurred in two cycles, they found that they weren't welcome by the northerners, and especially by the new European emigrants. The jobs that they were given in the factories were the lowest paying, and most backbreaking after the northerners made all their claims about supporting them. That is why the ghettos were formed. Now, the wealthy elite, who make the most of these claims, live in gated communities.
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