In the annals of the city, blacks arrive, whites flee. Except in this succession, Italian immigrants took Sullivan and Thompson streets, with Lutherans slipping into two buildings, and the Italians said they were theirs forever. If you don't like it, then watch out. The Village, however, was worthy of its beginnings by the way bohemians were able to live and grow famous amidst Irish and Italians, the breeds most suspicious of outsiders, and capable at any odd moment of exploding into uncommon violence. Italians were comfortable with bohemians because they had less money and did not protest.
Poor people rise in fury at any worthwhile protest.
Always, the striker is despised. As for two middle-aged women living together, it was unthinkable, it was desperately sinful, for anybody to have a trace of suspicion of them being lesbians, about which the Irish knew nothing.