The Good Neighbor Project is a fictional OAA program which moves Gentile families and families of other ethnic and religious minorities into Jewish neighborhoods. Like all OAA programs, The Good Neighbor Project is aimed at diluting and weakening Jewish communities and constituencies.
The Good Neighbor Project Quotes in The Plot Against America
The The Plot Against America quotes below are all either spoken by The Good Neighbor Project or refer to The Good Neighbor Project. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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A previously unpublicized section of the homesteading plan called the Good Neighbor Project [was] designed to introduce a steadily increasing number of non-Jewish residents into predominantly Jewish neighborhoods and in this way “enrich” the “Americanness” of everyone involved. […] The underlying goal of the Good Neighbor Project like that of Just Folks, was to weaken the solidarity of the Jewish social structure as well as to diminish whatever electoral strength a Jewish community might have in local and congressional elections.
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The Good Neighbor Project Term Timeline in The Plot Against America
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Chapter 7: The Winchell Riots
...of empty “homesteaders of 1942” were filled with Italian families under the edicts of the Good Neighbor Project —an OAA program designed to flood Jewish neighborhoods with non-Jewish residents and “enrich the Americanness”...
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