Posted on 04/30/2023 10:02:28 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Not even an hour's drive southeast from the center of Chicago sits Gary, Indiana, a semi-apocalyptic shell of its former self. Originally founded in 1906, Gary, Indiana wasn't always the way it is now. During the middle of the 20th century, Gary was a booming steel town and a hub for the United States Steel Corporation. Domestic steel workers and newly-arrived immigrants flocked to the city for its economic opportunity, and during the 50's and 60's, Gary was thriving enough to rival other major industrial hubs like Chicago and Detroit. So how did this once-thriving center of industry collapse into the semi-abandoned "Murder Capital of America?"
The whole story is a complex one, but the primary contributor to Gary's doom was the decline of the steel industry itself. The majority of people who lived in Gary worked for the town's steel mill, and when America's steel industry started to collapse due to overseas competition, so did the city's largest employer.
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The city that spawned The Jackson Five.
It’s been a basket case for 30 years. Long before woke and China virus and CRT.
Globalization was the death to Gary, Indiana and so many more mid-sized American cities.
DemoRAT controlled and destroyed
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Globalization destroys whatever it touches, along with other aspects of leftism.
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Decline can be traced to election of Richard Hatcher in 1967 who made Coleman Young of Detroit look rational.
Productive citizens left and unproductive welfare slugs who blamed everything on the “white debbils” remained.
“ So how did this once-thriving center of industry collapse into the semi-abandoned “Murder Capital of America?”
Black people in elected office.
That’s how.
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Longer than THAT. More like 50 years.
I remember hearing about it when I was in Junior High School in 1971!
The Jacksons left.
You cannot ignore the role of unions in destroying the US Steel and Auto industries. They were front and center. When we were the post WW II powerhouse with an intact infrastructure, we could pay those high union wages. When the world rebuilt and rebounded with lower cost labor and we started importing lower-cost products, the US became less competitive.
What would you have done to fix that?
Yes
Gary stank
Gary today.
Looks stunningly prosperous & vibrant. Eh?
“So how did this once-thriving center of industry collapse into the semi-abandoned “Murder Capital of America?”
Once upon a time, Democrats were elected to office.
The End.
“when America’s steel industry started to collapse due to overseas competition.....”
“Politicians selling us out to China”.
Correct. It was actually due to politicians on both sides of the aisle selling us out to China. The Clintons and the Bushes sold out America for their own personal and financial gain. I cringe every time I see the clip of Bush speaking of the “new world order”.
Gary Indiana is an inland port that was doomed when ships were built that were too large to navigate the St. Lawrence River.
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