Word: zooters
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...Angeles papers carried this typical headline: "Zoot Suit Hoodlum Mobs Attack Service Men." I saw nothing to justify this headline except circulation. I found the situation to be entirely the reverse. I found the zooter on most occasions outnumbered 200 to one, except in their enforced segregated districts...
...opinion the type of soldier (a very tiny proportion of the Army) who drifted in the Los Angeles terror mobs suffers from an inferiority complex. Regimented, and in his drab same uniform, he resents the attention the zooter is paid when garbed in his nonmilitary, free-choice, albeit outlandish, getup. . . . This type of soldier has a subconscious bitterness towards all civilians, fostered by labor strikes which are played up by the press, and against capital which they imagine is making millions while they, poor souls, are the "goats...
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