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Originally Posted by -=skywalker=-
I think what people seem to forget is that a lot of the larger southern municipalities were ransacked and in some cases litterly destroyed during the Civil War. Some cities that suffered that fate are the larger so called "New South" cities like Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Richmond come to mind. When the Union armies came through a lot of the infastructure of those cities suffered extensive damage, having to be rebuilt from the ground up. So yes compared to a New York, Boston or even Washington D.C. there's not as many historical structures standing.
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That may be true in Atlanta's case, since it actually was heavily damaged in the civil war, but in Nashville's case the biggest culprits are natural disaster (massive flooding wiped out the East Bank) and simple urban renewal.
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