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"In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ..." — Rebecca Traister
In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
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