Letters, Apr. 8, 1957

Chicago's Dogpatch

Sir:

Horrified to read your nasty "Anglo-Saxon Migration" in the March 18 issue. Don't you realize that these hillbillies are bringing the precious "Southern way of life" to unenlightened Yankeeland?

WARREN L. BASSETT Oakland, Calif.

Sir:

Maybe these "hillbillies" have not yet mastered the operation of modern plumbing —assuming it is available in the slums into which they are "compressed," but I find it hard to believe, however, that their regard for law suffers by comparison with the prevailing Chicago attitude toward law. As a descendant of a long line of hillbillies, I...

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