Re: OT: Is New Orleans finished ?


"Fred Bloggs" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Robert wrote:
>> "Fred Bloggs" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>
>>>Jim Thompson wrote:
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>>>>As a kid I was raised in housing built for returning WWII veterans.
>>>>You know, the two bedroom house built on a narrow lot, but so deep it
>>>>was an acre. It's now a slum, with "public" housing replacing homes
>>>>:-(
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>>>
>>>Well- unless you're going to embellish the hardship with stories of not
>>>having enough to eat or clothes on your back- you did NOT grow up "poor"-
>>>you had a stable family environment, well structured civic community ,
>>>and access to sufficient public education. Children are materially "poor"
>>>by definition.
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>> I don't know about Jim but I certainly went hungry at times. And I do
>> remember wearing shoes where the soles had separated all around the front
>> edges and I had to step carefully to keep them from flopping open. This
>> was going to school clothes. Summer times we went barefoot a lot.
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>> Some of the smaller rural areas didn't have much in the way of support
>> networks other than relatives. And my parents had moved away from
>> relatives.
>>
>> Robert
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> That is "poor" but it could have been worse. The tenant farmer kids in
> rural Virginia during the Depression were used as slave labor in the
> fields all day- no educational access, no shoes, rags for clothes- and
> their diet was mainly biscuits once a day- most of them ended up as
> unhealthy illiterate adults.

Fred, I was always aware of people in worse situations than myself/family.
Didn't know people that bad off as you say. The groups in that time and
place were a lot more stratified but in some places I didn't even think of
us as "poor".

Robert


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