Rural newcomers weakened the appearential order through sheer ignorance of it.

Evidence

As we shall soon see, this floating population played what I consider to be a crucial part in the emergence of spatial ordering. For now, however, the main point to be made is simply that this massive influx of rural persons-whatever their urban destinies-challenged the already weakening appearential order simply by being ignorant or disdainful of it. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 320