Should Chinatowns in America be torn down?

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87. 1906. And help was not forthcoming for a good reason

Chinatown had something that city leaders envied: it occupied one of the most desirable locations in the city.

In fact, even before the 1906 quake, the local newspapers editorialized in favor of moving the Chinese. After the quake, city leaders presented their plans to relocate Chinatown to the mud flats on the southern outskirts of the city. Fortunately the Chinese leaders held firm.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5337215

Totally off topic: I lost my great grandfather in the 1906 earthquake and fire. He died ten days before the event and was in transit from Healdsburg to SF to be interred in the Odd Fellows cemetery. He never made it. Grandma always suspected some unscrupulous funeral director in the City tossed his carcass aside and resold the bronze casket for some big bucks.