[TimeLord]

Just a week ago, Detroit was named the most liberal city in America. Now it's in utter decay. Can the liberal media make the connection? NOPE!

[palmer]

"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear."

I want to survive, therefore I must be racist to avoid SE DC.

[mainepatsfan]

Well maybe now folks will have a place to stay during the Super Bowl.

[MichiganMan]

The schools are bad. The roads are full of potholes. Crime is high and so are taxes. The city is in a budget crisis so deep it could end up being run by the state.

Welcome to the "most liberal" city in the United States.

[ShadowDancer]

What's with all the Detroit pieces lately? It's bad enough having to live by it, now I have to read about it all the time too. Bleech.

[kassie]

My husband had to fly there this morning. He'll be there for 3 days. He'd rather go anywhere but Detroit. No offense, I'm sure there are parts of the city he hasn't seen which are nice, but what he has seen, he doesn't care for.

[chadwimc]

Sorta reminds a person of what happens when the "colonial powers" leave an African country...

[Rebelbase]

"but the lead creeping out of crumbling bricks and peeling paint drifts in through her windows."

Lead in bricks?

[yankeedame]

"If you call and ask (the city) about it they say they don't have the funds to tear it down."

I don't know. A couple of well placed sticks of TNT couldn't cost that much.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Crime is high and so are taxes

Another connection to the population loss that they seem unable to make!

[NZerFromHK]

"helped lure young professionals and spark redevelopment in some of the more desirable neighborhoods"

If the chardonnay socialists are intent on moving back to the city, perhaps we should too eh? </sacrasm>

[the invisib1e hand]

on the cutting edge of emminent domain, islamist stronghold...well, all that's irrelevant, i'm sure. But Ted Nugent is from there, that's cool.

[DugwayDuke]

"What made Detroit's experience so stark was the lack of regional planning and the ease with which developments were able to incorporate into new cities in order to avoid sharing their tax revenue with the city, said Margaret Dewar, a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan."

This is the reason so many are so fond of the concept of 'smart development' and opposed to 'suburban sprawl'. They want to prevent you from moving out of slums like Detriot so they can have your tax money to spend on liberal programs that created the slums in the first place.

[R. Scott]

"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear."

Racism? No
Fear of violent crime? Yes.

[bikepacker67]

"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism REALITY and fear."

[MichiganMan]

But first the city has to get rid of the crumbling buildings that haunt the streets, luring criminals, arsonists and wild animals and creating a general sense of hopelessness.

Well... yes, but aside from the crumbling buildings, criminals, arsonists and wild animals, its white people's racism that is keeping people out of Detroit.

[GBA]

"Suburbanites are taking the bodies of their relatives out of cemeteries because they're afraid to come to the city," Vogel said. "There are about 400 to 500 hundred (being moved) a year which shows you the depth of racism and fear."

I don't get it. How is someone moving their dead relatives out of the cemetery b/c they're afraid to go to the cemetery showing "the depth of racism"?

[ninonitti]

This is a great article that I'll tell every lib I hear weezing about "affordable" housing to read.

There's plenty of houaing around it's just not where they want to live.

[goldstategop]

Big cities in America are run by liberals. But none has been so badly mismanaged as Detroit. And it ain't the racism, its just the policy choices made by Detroit's leaders - poor planning, higher taxes and stifling bureaucracy. All of which has set back the city's growth and actually led to its hemorrhaging population. Yes, its the policies, stupid.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[P.O.E.]

Cool photos of the disappearing history in Detroit, from a Detroit thread a few days ago.

[caver]

Yes, the most liberal city and the most depressing city.