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'The National Road' explores 'a changing America' from the ground

St. Louis on the Air

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Welcome to Dirtytown

This is a chapter that, unlike your chapter about road tripping, it doesn't always show saint louis in the best light. So are we dirty town? Ha, ha. There are many dirty towns across the united states. And this is not a unique story to saint louisi. A lot of that has to do with the post horse segregation of eastern missouri. The reason for that is to break up black voting power. It was, it was a kind of a jerry mounder to chop up these little towns and create these little court house rings of power That as can be predicted, treated their own residence terribly.

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