Meanwhile, in my neck of the woods:

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9. and Patterson wants to build a wall around Detroit .....

not realizing that one was built many years ago.

DETROIT (AP) — When Eva Nelson-McClendon first moved to Detroit's Birwood Street in 1959, she didn't know much about the wall across the street. At 6 feet tall and a foot thick, it wasn't so imposing, running as it did between houses on her street and one over. Then she started to hear the talk.

Neighbors told her the wall was built two decades earlier with a simple aim: to separate homes planned for middle-class whites from blacks who had already built small houses or owned land with plans to build.

"That was the division line," Nelson-McClendon, now, 79, says from the kitchen of her tidy, one-story home on the city's northwest side. "Blacks lived on this side, whites was living on the other side. ... That was the way it was."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/01/detroit-race-wall/2127165/

Grosse Pointe is the old money section of Detroit .... and still 92% white.

I somewhat amazed that this type of thinking is going on anywhere in Detroit. I was a suburbs kid, from Huntington Woods and Royal Oak, and much later, my parents moved to Birmingham.

Some of the suburbs are very integrated now. They weren't at all when I was young.

Here is a picture of the wall, soon after it was built in 1941. It was only about a half mile long, but the segregated concept remained, with the dividing line being 8 Mile Road.