Did the US emerge from the 1918 flu pandemic as fragmented and angry as we are now?
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And the labor strike of 1919-1921 and the first Red Scare and the Palmer Raids
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*strife
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You also had the Red Summer, labor militancy, and the first red scare
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Low point for union density, too.
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Yes to lump it all in as "the roaring 20s" is to use a tiny slice of elite life as characterizing the whole era I mean good lord look at the outright destruction and slaughter of black communities immediately after the war
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This. Plus reactionaries blocked reapportionment of Congress after the 1920 census for the entire decade.https://masscommons.wordpress.com/2016/11/28/weve-been-here-before-1920s-edition/ …
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To what extent do you think the pandemic influenced how those played out?
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Hard to disentangle pandemic from WWI & labor uprising, but it's easy to imagine that the "Spanish Flu" (as it was called) fed into xenophobia.
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See the Red Summer of 1919
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