of the postwar baby boom and the rise of suburbia.
During the Depression, young people postponed marriage, which plummeted the birth rate in America. But at the end of the war, the US marriage was was higher than any record-keeping nation in the history of the twentieth century. Although it peaked in 1957, more than four million babies were born every year until 1965. But housing became more crowded. After the war, many white Americans moved to the suburbs; they wanted more
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