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Buster Bluth
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Race relations is a way better way to put it. The white people that left the city over the years, did so because they could afford to. The same applies to the Black people (for the most part). The black people didn't leave the city, are the ones that either can't afford to move out to the suburbs. Smart people (both black, white and hispanic) don't live in the city because there are virtually no services and other things people need to live (grocery stores, power is spotty, garbage pickup is iffy and good schools are non-existent).
Like I said, race relations is a better way to put it than racism but the problem is goes much deeper.
Agreed. I think it's also important to point out that wanting to move out of the city and wanting to move out of the neighborhood are two different things. But Detroit didn't take action to annex, and Detroiters didn't have an option of any good neighborhoods to move to. People in other cities did, and it kept a portion of the taxes in those cities.
To add to that, in the 1970s when the gentrification started happening in cities (when we began to realize that sprawl was destroying our country...but that's a convo for a different time), Detroit had no policies to facilitate it and race relations inhibited progress on that front too. Poot minorities often don't see gentrification as progress, so it's easy to see why it didn't happen.
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