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Dearborn, the capital of Arab America
1920
Dearborn, Michigan
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Ford's five-dollar day drew Lebanese and Syrian workers to the Rouge from the 1910s, and later Yemeni, Iraqi and Palestinian arrivals. Dearborn now has the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, and elected the first Arab American mayor of a major US city in 2021.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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