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# Middle Class Exodus to the Suburbs (1966)
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# Assuring Faith and Confidence in the Electoral Process and the Rule of Law (2000)
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In the decades after World War II, the population of suburban areas more than doubled while the population of central cities shrank. Many of the new suburbanites were members of a growing white middle class who had grown up in cities but chose to buy their own home and raise their family in the suburbs. These affluent suburbanites may still have worked in cities, but their homes and much of their spending were in the suburbs (along with the associated property and sales tax revenue). Notably, formal and informal mechanisms–such as restrictive covenants that banned sale to people of color; zoning laws that effectively excluded poor people; and informal, discriminatory real estate broker practices–kept the suburbs nearly all white. Those who remained in the cities were disproportionately likely to be poorer people of color, often living in slums, and thus were the most in need of the social services that city governments were increasingly ill-equipped to provide.
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The clip, from a 1966 episode of *Local Issues* called “To Save a City” produced by WMVS in Milwaukee, illuminates the crucial role of the automobile and the growth of the highway system in facilitating this suburbanization; the prototypical suburban father drove into work on government-constructed freeways connecting the city and suburbs. The video clip illuminates a trend about Milwaukee that was emblematic of the country as a whole: Even while the U.S. economy thrived in the 1950s and 1960s, slum conditions prevailed in significant portions of American cities.
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The day after election day, the question of who would be the next president of the United States remained unresolved. This episode of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer features both George W. Bush and Al Gore addressing their respective supporters with optimism about claiming the presidency. Their speeches also aimed to reassure the American people amid the uncertainty, encouraging voters to have patience, faith, and confidence in the rule of law in electoral processes.This message would become critical during the byzantine processes of recounts, lawsuits, state court orders, and the Supreme Court’s ruling, as there would be no officially named president until December: 36 days after the election.
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<b>Local Issue; 19; To Save a City</b>
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<b>| WMVS (Television station : Milwaukee, Wis.) | August 7, 1966 </b>

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