ferent. People lived and conducted their lives much closer to their homes because their mobility was restricted to the horse and buggy. That restriction resulted in the majority of the industrial working class living in or just beyond the industrial sectors of the cities they worked in. Similarly, the agricultural working class was isolated from the social mainstream. As the automobile enabled the migration out of cities and into suburban developments, a type of discrimination was begun. Members of society at the bottom of the economic ladder, primarily Mexican and African American migrant workers with minimal skills, could usually only find low-income housing near their low income jobs in the cities. According to Jane Holtz Kay, "the manner in which suburbia was delineated by zoning principles and other techniques to keep out undesirables led to these groups being 'ghettoized'" (Kay). Henry Ford summed up the escapism adopted by the upper classes, saying "We shall solve the city problem by leaving the city" (Fink 25). Buying a car to escape to suburbia increasingly became the answer for many families.
             One of the most serious impacts that the automobile has had on the social state of American life is evident by the disappearance of the socialized individual. In 1890, families would spend Sundays and long summer evenings together with each other and with other families on front porches and lawns, while sharing news, playing music, or singing songs. By 1920, this aspect of American social life was all but a memory. The
             invention of the automobile which had exponentially increased individual mobility had extinguished the tight knit family lifestyle (Fink 34). According to the late architectural historian Spiro Kostoff, "the street stands as the burial place of a chance to learn from one another, the burial place of unrehearsed excitement, of the cumulative knowledge of human ways. We lose this ...