sentences:  In either case, links back to the mother country, which had been waning as the second generation of Ybor City residents came of age, were further weakened.After World War II, the slow decline of the neighborhood which had begun in the early 1930s accelerated, as veterans returning home from service found a neighborhood with little economic opportunity and little prospects for improvement, leading many to relocate outside of Ybor City.Several factors played a role in that process.