Thread: Do you remember when "inner city" and "urban" were code words for "black"?
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Old Posted Oct 17, 2021, 3:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Steely Dan View Post
Here in the upper midwest, "trailer park" just means poor white people or code for "white trash". It isn't anything specific to white people in the south or Appalachia.

Those people overwhelmingly moved to Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, etc., from West Virginia and Kentucky in the 1950s along with Southern blacks.
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