It may be but in the places I know, the polluting industries were were they were - and workers were moved nearby. And at the time they were white workers. I am thinking of rust belt towns whether in CLeveland OH or Donora PA or Newark and PAterson in NJ.
The real bottom line is that the poorest workers live closest to the mills/facto…
It may be but in the places I know, the polluting industries were were they were - and workers were moved nearby. And at the time they were white workers. I am thinking of rust belt towns whether in CLeveland OH or Donora PA or Newark and PAterson in NJ.
The real bottom line is that the poorest workers live closest to the mills/factories etc. The poorest will be white coal miners who live near a polluted stream of Hispanic immigrants who live in a part of town that was originally Little Dublin.
While i have no doubt current dirty businesses would be sited where minorities lived - for most of the stories I hear, the dirt came before the minorities. I live near NYC so our dirty industries killed white folks first.
It may be but in the places I know, the polluting industries were were they were - and workers were moved nearby. And at the time they were white workers. I am thinking of rust belt towns whether in CLeveland OH or Donora PA or Newark and PAterson in NJ.
The real bottom line is that the poorest workers live closest to the mills/factories etc. The poorest will be white coal miners who live near a polluted stream of Hispanic immigrants who live in a part of town that was originally Little Dublin.
While i have no doubt current dirty businesses would be sited where minorities lived - for most of the stories I hear, the dirt came before the minorities. I live near NYC so our dirty industries killed white folks first.