So let me get this straight. A city that rapidly expanded and peaked at 2 million people following WW2 has since lost about 75% of that population. And you blame the demographics of the people who didn't flee the city?

@@Knightmessenger The 60s riots made people leave, same as in Baltimore. Common. Called "white flight" all over the Internet

Nope, all long gone, speculators or the land bank grabbed them all.

@@rwdplz1 And how do they pay the property taxes? I heard they get fined if they don't fix up the houses.

What was the republican's role in it ?

@@tommytomtom5531 Incentivizing the outsourcing that started the whole thing going in the first place.

overreliance on the auto industry is a big factor, also it has a new skyscraper and international bridge, i'd say in 20 years detroit is going to be a different city from what it was 1970-2010

Basketball Americans is why Detroit is so bad. They never make anything better

my girlfriend is from detroit and it isn't a dead city at all, we clicked on this to see how bad it was 😂

@conradmcdougall3629 what is a "basketball american?" Go on tell everyone what you actually mean.

​@@KnightmessengerThat sounds racist AF to me.

Plus an overreliance on single family houses, especially areas annexed in the 20s but not built until after the great depression and WW2.

There was much more to the Detroit economy than automobiles. Until the '80s when a new GM poletown auto plant was built on the site of the closed Dodge Main plant, no auto plants had been built in Detroit since the 1930s. The #2 computer company at the time, Burroughs was then in Detroit. Many products besides autos once were manufactured in Detroit. The development of the Interstate highway system allowed suburbs to grow across the U.S. so that the centralization that had made large rust belt cities more efficient no longer made economic sense. Sunbelt cities with the best interstate highway and commercial airline hubs access, pitched lower taxes and lack of labor unions. Yet unskilled southern whites and blacks continued to flood into cities like Detroit as the LBJ Great Society programs allowed them to remain in Detroit with minimal employment, leading to massive decay and collapsing tax revenue, causing rapid decline in schools, police and other services. Chicago preserved it's beautiful lakefront for the wealthy, Detroit built factories and warehouses on its beautiful waterfront, so that by the 1920s most wealthy Detroiters had moved to leafy semi-rural estates - leaving Detroit with too few influential vested urban advocates. When the upper middle class professions began leaving, the writing was on the wall for the demise of a great city.

Detroit ain't ever coming back until all the Democrats are gone.

Just the Downtown. Leave the Downtown and you're on you own. Good Luck.

And how small the us is

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