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Bridgeport is different, though, in that the primary ethnic groups remained in the community and their lots improved over time.
Bridgeport had begun as a very poor settlement but those living here gradually moved up the economic ladder, and the youth gangs went through a process that might be termed as maturation.
South of Bridgeport the gangs tended to be a bit rougher, and their contests with the Douglas neighborhood gangs to the east are thought to have pre-heated the race riot that broke out (on the lake front) in 1919.