Regional, Ethnic, Social divisions Truman

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South
White, agricultural, kept black residents in a position of legal, economic, social and political inequality
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North
Great cities containing manufacturing industries, Pittsburgh (steel), Detroit (cars)
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Decreased regionalism because
10% people left homes for training camps (75% overseas), 13% changed country of residence, 8 million located to different state
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direction of migration
From agricultural South to the industrial North
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What did the war help to do?
Decrease prejudice against different ethnic groups, everyone had opportunity to show patriotism
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Non whites suffered the greatest discrimination
14 million black Americans (10% of population) treated as inferior
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Variations in wealth
Exceptionally rich (Rockefellers), very rich (Roosevelts), reasonably comfortable (Truman), very poor (sharecroppers in South)
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Great cities containing manufacturing industries, Pittsburgh (steel), Detroit (cars)

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Decreased regionalism because

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direction of migration

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What did the war help to do?

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