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ethbro
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How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
So now we just have New Francisco, and a half-bulldozed New Orleans?
Chinjut
on Aug 10, 2015
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You inspired me to look up the origin of that quote, which was actually quite an interesting (albeit inconclusive) investigation; see
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/18/cleveland/
ethbro
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I'd always heard Tennessee Williams, but impressive due diligence. It's interesting that Cleveland only gets tacked on as the butt of the quip when it has problems and white-flight in the mid-1970s.
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So now we just have New Francisco, and a half-bulldozed New Orleans?