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when_we_win_remember 4 points ago +4 / -0

I wouldn't discount the role of technology. People coming over in the 19th century really were leaving it all behind. There was no flying back to the homeland twice a year. There was no spending all day on the phone with Scotland, no watching German TV. You couldn't send a check to France every month.