Friday, March 13, 2009
What Democratic Leadership has Done to Detroit
Here is a heart-breaking photo essay. Here is the NYT on the subject in 1990. During WWII, Detroit had over 2 million people and by 1950 was this nation's fourth biggest city. In 1960, the population was 1.6 million, 70% white. Now it's just over 900,000, 82% black. The mayor has been a Democrat since 1962. The median house price in the city is now $7,500. My 12 year old car is worth more than that. Whole neighborhoods have been abandoned because of crime. Just go to google earth. Look at the devastation of the neighborhoods and former industrial base for square mile after square mile. It really is a shame.
This is how well Democratic government works. We would probably see the same thing with many major cities that have had an unbroken line of Democratic mayors, and councilmen and women for 45 years or more.
This is how well Democratic government works. We would probably see the same thing with many major cities that have had an unbroken line of Democratic mayors, and councilmen and women for 45 years or more.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1701, French trader Antoine de la Moth, Sieyur de Cadillac, founds the town of Detroit to control the fur trade in the region. The name was originally La Ville d'Etroit, but we dropped the apostrophe faster than a bad girlfriend. My favorite story about Detroit was from a black Marine in Viet Nam who related that all the white officers would say, after they learned he was from Detroit, silly things like, DEE-troit, or Motor City, and they they would laugh. The Marine shook his head and said, "Ain't nothing special about Detroit--ain't nothing too funny about it, neither."
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