It’s been a basket case for 30 years. Long before woke and China virus and CRT.
DemoRAT controlled and destroyed
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.
Longer than THAT. More like 50 years.
I remember hearing about it when I was in Junior High School in 1971!