[GonzoGOP]

A self-inflicted Katrina. Sweet!

Like I said the best example is Detroit. Since hurricane Katrina in 2005 New Orleans has lost 29% of it's population. Over that same time period Detroit lost 25%. However since it was a bigger city to start with it's losses in terms of people running for the hills has actually been higher than New Orleans.

The critical event was the 1967 riots in Detroit. Unlike Katrina only 47 people got killed in the riots, and while the burning made a lot of news, the actual amount of property damage was contained to a relatively small area.

The damage was psychological. Anyone who wasn't part of the problem stopped trying to fight the rot, and just moved out. When the business start to get tired of being burned out, robbed, or shaken down by the government they moved out too. Detroit has lost almost three quarters of its population since then.

[Drill Thrawl]

Anyone who wasn't part of the problem stopped trying to fight the rot, and just moved out. When the business start to get tired of being burned out, robbed, or shaken down by the government they moved out too. Detroit has lost almost three quarters of its population since then.

You are so wrong on this. It was racis (silent 't') white flight and nothing more. Or so all the libs I know say so.

[j_tull]

The critical event was the 1967 riots in Detroit.

By the end of September of that year, my parents packed us up and moved us 300 miles north. Being close enough to see the smoke was enough for them to abandon their lifelong hometown and GTFO!