for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need to build a whole bunch of new stuff. you need a whole bunch of new or retooled or expanded facilities to build that stuff. you need a lot of people to work in those facilities, so they need a place to live. the math is simple, right? on paper, that s all very rational. that all just follows. it s very logistical. it makes sense. in practice, though, it was its own kind of war. while detroit resi
uniforms, everything. the government opened defense production facilities all over the country. factories, they either retooled the existing ones, or they built new ones. and in some places, there were particularly large defense production facilities, either a large number for retooled plants, or a bunch of new ones that were built. one of the things that emerged quickly as a bottleneck for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian use in detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need t
united states senate. he said the government, federal government was shipping in blacks to vote in mississippi in his race. he said, those black voters shipped and would swap the votes of white people, and so he said that quote, every red blooded white men must use any means to keep the and words away from the polls and mississippi. he said, quote, if you don t know what that means, you re just playing dumb. it may shock you to learn that theodore bilbo was also a crook. a senate investigation found that helping construction firms getting contracts. he took bribes from those companies, bribes including a new cadillac, also a swimming pool, also i kid you not, the excavation of a lake to create an island for his home. after calling for race war in america to save the white race from being replaced, after a virtually calling for white people to use terrorist means
in the book, he argued that white people were being replaced, that the white race would in fact disappear, if white people allowed nonwhite people to live freely among them. if they allow that to happen for much longer, white people would disappear. it was a plot, see? the existence of black people and other non white people, this insistence that white people somehow had to abide by them, and here in america, that was a plot. it was deliberately designed to eliminate the white race. the white people had to fight back against that. july 1946, that bilbo was running for reelection in the united states senate. he said the government, federal government was shipping in blacks to vote in mississippi in his race. he said, those black voters shipped and would swap the votes of white people, and so he said that quote, every red blooded white men must use any means to keep the and words away from the polls and mississippi. he said, quote, if you don t know what that means, you re just playing d