Yankee Pigs!

[Unkotare]

No, not that. You wannabe confederate traitors can stop touching yourselves and put away the LARPer cosplay outfits.


In the 1800s, New York was conspicuously filthy, smelly, and strewn with garbage. Before the era of comprehensive sanitation services, the 'solution' to this shameful state was to let pigs (yes, real pigs) roam the streets of the city by the thousands. They would - the idea went - consume the household waste that New Yorkers regularly tossed into the street without a second thought.

Foreign visitors were frequently taken aback at the site of wild (often quite large) swine casually wandering the streets of a major metropolis.

 

[DarkFury]

So we went from pigs to coloreds and the problem only grew worse.
Excellent point Bravo!

 

[Unkotare]

In 1832, no one was particularly surprised by the cholera outbreak that struck the city.

 

[fncceo]

New York was conspicuously filthy, smelly, and strewn with garbage.

What changed?

 

[Pete7469]

New York was conspicuously filthy, smelly, and strewn with garbage.

What changed?

Rats own the streets, and the swine walk upright while calling police officers "pigs".

 

[Silent Warrior]

New York is still conspicuously filthy, smelly and strewn with garbage, but all the pigs are now in the state legislature and in Congress.

 

[whitehall]

The Garden State of New Jersey was the last northern slave state to outlaw slavery a scant ten years before the Civil War. Apparently New Jersey slave owners still reserved the right to keep slaves after the law was signed.