{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Dagnar wrote","author_name":"Dagnar (npub1t8…a05rg)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1t8wtmk0qxpdwlgcwn95gc7kmltjuvymzd000uks83wrtwajnt2kqga05rg","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Keep this in mind:\nWhen I was a kid in the early 1970s, I was living in upstate NY. Many areas were still rural, and they were still as they were back in the 1920s. Talking to older people, I got to experience what old American culture was, that blend of different European lineages finding common ground. Even in the smaller city I come from, that Old American culture was still there in traces.\n\nTo my view, the fall happened rapidly, with now seeing all that Old America obliterated."}