Detroit, A Democrat Town, A Record To Be Proud Of ( Mostly )

Poli pundit ^ | July 10th, 2006 | -- Oak Leaf

[george76]

Detroit, Michigan is a City in which all elements of political power is controlled by Democrats. It is absolute control as far back as I can remember.

State wide elected Democrats, including Governor Granholm, do absolutely nothing to provide reform to the citizens of Detroit.

“Detroit schools send more kids to prison and the welfare rolls than they do to college.”

[george76]

Wow.

This is amazing. The DUmmies are killing the city !

Population of Detroit (city), MI.:
1950 ......... 1,849,568
1960 ......... 1,670,144
1970 ......... 1,511,482
1980 ......... 1,203,339
1990 ......... 1,027,974
2000 ............ 951,270
2004 ............ 900,198

[dynachrome]

The site detailing the "Ruins of Detroit"


http://detroityes.com/home.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Great post. One quibble though...

"One parent households bringing up kids."

s/b

"One parent households letting the kids raise themselves -- or not."

[SunkenCiv]

...and still growing! ;')

[SunkenCiv]

Kent County, which is where Grand Rapids is located (I live in Grand Rapids) is growing like mad. Obviously it hasn't as large in population as the area surrounding Detroit, but Detroit's population has halved in fifty years. The number three spot used to be held by Flint, but that has cratered a bit. Unless GR gets a lot of multistorey apartments or condos, I have my doubts that the population will ever exceed 250,000.

And that's just fine with me.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice link!

[Larry Lucido]

No city is friendlier.

Gotta agree with you there. Folks in Detroit can be quite hospitable - the ones that aren't trying to kill ya, anyway.

Lots of folks don't realize that Detroit's "Paradise Valley" during the 30's to 50's had the highest concentration in the country of successful black-owned businesses, and had a blues scene rivalling anything in Harlem or Chicago. (John Lee Hooker, anyone?). Anyway, this entire area was condemned to be paved over for a 3 mile stretch of interstate, so a stable but crowded populace had to disburse and, with limited venues, many crowded into the 12th Street/Grand Blvd area where a crackdown on an afterhours drinking site sparked the 1967 riots - and, well, the rest is history.

One wonders, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsite, if a successful, established neighborhood had just been left the f alone, might Detroit have developed more like Chicago with more or less intact ethnic enclaves (voluntary, not enforced by lynchings if one ventured out) and a reasonably thriving economy despite a moronic government?

Someone else on the thread mentioned ward accountability. As much as that is badmouthed in Chicago, maybe it does have a place.

[Straight Vermonter]

I've also heard elsewhere that there are around 9000 abandoned properties in Detroit.

It is actually about 12,000. (A lot either way)

The funniest thing going on in Detroit is people setting up farms on all of these abandoned properties. The lefties talk about this like it is a good thing.

[mjolnir]

One wonders, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsite, if a successful, established neighborhood had just been left the f alone, might Detroit have developed more like Chicago with more or less intact ethnic enclaves (voluntary, not enforced by lynchings if one ventured out) and a reasonably thriving economy despite a moronic government?

Someone else on the thread mentioned ward accountability. As much as that is badmouthed in Chicago, maybe it does have a place.

I agree, Jane Jacobs rightly opposed Robert Moses in New York for the same sort of reasons.

Ward accountability is absolutely vital if idiotic proposals like "Africa Town"-- the epitome of the destructive top-down way of doing things you and Jacobs criticize--- are no longer going to be proposed, much less passed by despite the Mayor's opposition by Detroit's right-now unaccountable City Council.