1) WORKING-CLASS FATHERS OFTEN MADE MIDDLE-CLASS WAGES
This meant that the father of the house could make enough money all by himself to support the whole family. That meant the mother could stay home and take care of the kids and make sure they didn't turn into vandals or anything else anti-social. It meant the family could afford to buy a rowhouse in the city. It meant they could afford to MAINTAIN that rowhouse.
But when the father of the house got DOWNSIZED because some boss wanted to make even more money from slave labor it meant that none of these things were now possible. The father got a SERVICE job for one-third as much. So the mother had to work and not see what the kids were up to. And the teenagers worked. It was no longer possible to maintain the rowhouse so they lost it and an absentee landlord bought it and put in tenanats who didnt own it and mistreated it while he also let it rot. The tenants also annoyed the neighborhood and help drive out other homeowners. Thus went our cities and the whole country.
2) PEOPLE WENT TO CHURCH
Religion was the vehicle to teach morality. And parents did not have to work sundays because the father made enough money on weekdays and there were 'blue laws' that even protected the service workers from it. People started working all sorts of crazy hours with their seven days a week service jobs and they family members worked different hours. With sevice jobs you never know ahead of time what your hours will be. And being paid much less than industrial jobs you have to work whenever you can.
3) ALL AMERICA WAS DIVIDED INTO ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS
4)AMERICA HAD IMMIGRATION LAWS THAT WERE TAKEN SERIOUSLY
5) THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM HAD NOT YET BEEN BUILT!
Evil festers and boils in the centers of large cities. The Interstate highway system created a pipeline from the big cities to the little ones. And made it much easier for huge businesses to reach the small cities, undersell the local brands, and put local workers out of work and back down into the underclass so they could no longer afford to maintain their homes and had to work more hours which meant less time with the kids.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION 11-6-01