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Originally Posted by Olefin
Be interesting to see what happened there - especially among the large Greek population after the US and Greece went to war or how the Polish Americans there fared with Polish troops fighting against the US.
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I have a neat map from the 80s which shows the ethnic breakdown of the city. If I get a chance to scan it I will upload.
Personally while there might be a bit of ethnic stress during the conventional phase of the war, I personally never saw any animosity towards Russians during the cold war as generally the thought was "if they are here they don't support their homeland".
I see things going racial once things go bad. Our city is quite segregated (and was even moreso 2 decades ago). The powers that be felt that there were lessons to be learned from the '68 riots and actually built expressways that could be flooded to act as a barrier against racial unrest. Also public buildings build in the 70s looked like fortresses.
I think it would break down with:
- the cops holding the north side.
- the gangs holding the west side
- power block mixture of organized crime and unions holding parts of the south side