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In reply to the discussion: So Detroit- what went wrong? [View all]tavernier
(12,368 posts)13. I spent the first 35 of my 66 years
in Michigan. I will probably get pummeled for this, but here it is: Detroit has always been considered the ghetto of the state. We would shop, vacation and visit anywhere else, but never Detroit. It was populated by people you didn't want to run into after dark and most of the city wasn't very pretty in the daylight. Crime was rampant.
Sure, there were a lot of suburbs where the wealthy lived and flourished, but they had their own malls and social clubs and rarely ventured into the city.
I think most big cities head in that direction after a while: New York , Chicago, Etc. - and it takes good management and a caring populace to put them back on the right track. I think Detroit sank because it had neither until far too late.
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Kicking the can down the roadism. Pensions, TBTF bank loans, Wall Street fuckery.
Safetykitten
Jul 2013
#2
Quite simply, Detroit and much of what was industrialized Michigan, is a testament...
MrScorpio
Jul 2013
#5
Two full generations from now, the US as it is today and the wreckage of what it once was
Javaman
Jul 2013
#23
The Bethlehem Steel plant at Sparrows Point did not have to be closed. It was closed because
byeya
Jul 2013
#40
The state of Michigan (Governor Snyder) stripped Detroit of all its independent authority and
Liberal_Stalwart71
Jul 2013
#8
Unionized Detroit abandoned by Big 3 for non-unionized locales in the South.
reformist2
Jul 2013
#10
Governor Rick Snyder and Dennis Archer and Kwame Kilpatrick and years of
mstinamotorcity2
Jul 2013
#12
Factories moving to suburbs, school quality, corruption, corruption, corruption
JPZenger
Jul 2013
#17
I think there are a lot of correct answers in this thread that need to be combined.
last1standing
Jul 2013
#18
The state can request that the filing be withdrawn, but it is up to the Federal court to dismiss it.
FarCenter
Jul 2013
#42
and if the state can't pursue the case because it is declared unconstitutional
Motown_Johnny
Jul 2013
#50
Years of nation-wide support by politicians for let's-send-manufacturing-jobs-to-foreign-countries
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#51