>>13579692People were extremely shortsighted.
If the crimes they heard of weren't in their neighbourhood, they might as well never have happened.
The distance between people especially in those days when America was 90% white made it so nobody had a clue how bad things were, let alone how bad things would become.
Every town had the local jobber robber, but that's just one guy. They couldn't imagine what would happen if the town got 10 local jobber robbers taking up all the sheriff's time.
And it's not just a matter of not having the internet to look it up on, or to get redpilled on.
Local TV in St Louis wasn't going to run stories on Brooklyn NYC. Newspapers weren't reporting that either, unless you had access to the Times or something like that.
So naturally, when the booker of the nation went to the Americans of 1965 and said "how about you do the job to this demographic", of course they were willing to do business, absolutely.
They didn't know that would kill the territory, and they didn't care enough about other towns to think about that sort of problem flooding over to their hometown promoter.
Just like how AEW fans didn't give one flaming flying fuck about what upscaled indie mark wrestling in AEW would do to all the indie promotions outside of that company, and now look they're all fucking dead, because all the talent flew to AEW.
Kinda like how those same Americans ended up flying out of their neighbourhood, to get away from the destruction they shortsightedly voted for and publicly supported.
Somewhat similar to how Californians have fled to Texas and now the Lone Star State is turning into a homosexual bowling alley.
