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In our old American life, and in the country districts where to-day the old conditions still largely obtain, there was and is no such sharp and rigid demarcation between different groups of citizens.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He contrasts the lack of rigid social divisions in rural America with urban life.

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