Awaiting the headline "Detroit Has More Deer Than People"
That is one huge drop.
The inevitable effect of a generation of Democrat rule.
FTA: “Detroit had 1.8 million residents in 1950. The newest decline, however, is smaller than declines in other recent years.”
A declining evacuation rate just means that most people who can get out already have.
I remember when they were the 4th largest in the country. Then the voters opted for ‘change’.
Actually, the decline can be traced to the Feds putting the black Sojourner Truth housing project in a white neighborhood (February 28, 1942), followed by the June riots. Downhill from there.
I choose life.
Send all the Somali refugees to one side of Detroit and all the Syrian refugees on the other side. See who builds a better city. Hilarity ensues.
Curious of how many of these were murdered or incarcerated for crimes committed?
It still controls the outcome of MI elections, decline or not!
3108 reduction in a year.
That’s only 8.6 killed per day. For Detroit, that’s not bad.
Detroit has become the Icon symbol for the results of Liberalism and Liberal policies. Detroit is a real life example of what happens to a city when the Government, and the Courts try to tell the population that we know what’s best for you all.
At one time Detroit was the Shining star of Commerce, Prosperity, and the American Dream fulfilled, today; Detroit will go down in History as the all time 3-D example of the utter stupidity of people that were proclaiming to become wise, and ....... were shown to be complete and total fools!! (For all the World to see.....and to laugh at!)
So Sad.............but that’s what Detroit has become, and that’s what it will always be. Detroit (as I once knew it) is gone with the Wind!
What a shame. That city used to be the envy of the world and now the Democrats and the Gibmedats have managed to turn it into a ruin.
Oddly enough, “Beverly Hills Cop” was on AMC this past weekend. Remember the footage of Detroit circa 1984 at the beginning of that movie, lol?
Every liberal/progressive idea in the last 60 years was tried in Detroit...
Free trade and offshoring killed Detroit.
This is about the same as having an open border. Trump needs to wall in Detroit and a few other cities along with it.
Wow, Charlotte NC has over 200,000 more people than Detroit?
It's not as bad as that.
It is true, though, that the population now is as low as it was a century ago, around the time of the First World War.
The Black population of the city has been declining over the last twenty years, though not as fast or for as long as the White population's been declining.
In 1950, America had the highest standard of living in the world. And the city with the highest standard of living in America was its fourth largest, Detroit.
All that it took to end that was a series of riots, the civil rights revolution, and Coleman Young.