Posted on 02/27/2024 1:24:16 PM PST by Rummyfan
In 1973, Coleman Young, an African American former labor organizer with ties to the American Communist Party, ran for mayor of Detroit. Young narrowly beat the city’s police commissioner, partly by arguing that cops targeted minorities. Once in office, Young rolled back enforcement and slashed the police force by 20 percent. Detroit’s crime exploded. Businesses and middle-class residents fled the city; polls showed a majority of whites feeling threatened. Detroit’s economy and social order collapsed during Young’s two-decade mayoralty. “He left the city a fiscal and social wreck,” as political scientist James Q. Wilson wrote. Yet he kept getting reelected by larger margins, as his black support stayed strong.
The arc of Young’s mayoral reign—a rapidly deteriorating city combined with ongoing political success—is a strange phenomenon that economists Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer dubbed the Curley Effect, after the early-twentieth-century Boston mayor James Michael Curley. Curley won the mayor’s office in 1913 through “incendiary rhetoric” and “aggressive redistribution” that shifted resources from WASP communities to his political allies in Irish neighborhoods. Tightening his hold on the mayor’s office, he remained in power for more than four decades. As with Young years later, Curley’s political fortunes benefited because those most likely to vote against him had left the city.
The Curley Effect has typically applied in cities, where politics is often called “tribal” because of strong ethnic or racial ties. Today, however, a new tribal politics—an ideological kind—is influencing state fortunes. Many now say that they wish to socialize with, marry, and live near only people with similar political opinions, and these commitments are shaping state migration patterns post-pandemic. Surveys show conservative voters in blue states dissatisfied with their current environments and likely to move, and progressives in the same places intending to stay.
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Picture and ever more race baiting corrupt human than Al Sharpton as mayor.
Hissonor.
“Why is UMW unionista honcho involved with this story?”
Please read the comment - the UMW is the union representing workers at the Remington plant moving from NY to GA. I was drawing a parallel on the inability to connect cause & effect when a union is involved.
Free Trade destroyed Detroit. The Demon Rats showed up to feed on the corpse.
That’s quite an expansion of the UMW!
I lived and worked close to Detroit for 15 years, ans heard all of this first-hand. It’s all true.
Then as much as I hate to say it, your family and all those other democrats that leave because of crime, taxes, racial issues, filth on the streets, etc are IDIOTS and just plain STUPID.
If they can’t even connect those dots that are actually a STRAIGHT LINE to their VOTING PREFERENCES they probably shouldn’t be voting at all.
I am a Conservative Californian (actually to the right of Atilla the Hun) and all I have to do is look at my own state and who controls it to see where the problem lies.
“This is precisely why I and others who are probably considered to be “far right” make the claim that civic nationalism is just a myth rooted in complete falsehoods.
Pat Buchanan made warnings years ago and he was trashed by the dumbass neocon globalist sell out open border schills in the GOP as a bigot.”
This !
Buchanan and Sam Francis.
No, you’re seeing A LOT OF folks escaping the consequences of their poor choices, only to repeat the error.
Thank You for remembering Sam Francis. I forgot about him.
“they still vote Democrat.”
Cognative dissonance is now terminal and it is going to take us all down the tubes together.
Just for anyone who might be interested how we got here, “Leviathan and Its Enemies” was Sam Francis’ posthumous book.
What it shows is how Managerial Liberalism gradually took over all the major institutions of the United States.
Free online here:
https://archive.org/details/LeviathanAndItsEnemiesSamuelT.Francis2016/page/n9/mode/2up
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