Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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New Jersey usually finds itself as the punchline of America’s jokes. To see if the stereotypes were true, we went to the Jersey blue-collar towns of Elizabeth and Linden; towns that power the entire East Coast.

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0:00 Intro
0:42 Entering Elizabeth
1:20 The Port
1:59 Brian
3:40 Attracting Immigrants
4:15 Centanni’s Meat Market
5:30 New Immigrant Demographic
7:44 Entering Linden
10:26 Coming to America
12:13 Oil Farms
13:15 Eduardo
14:44 Flat Tire in “Dangerous” Neighborhood


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