See, if I were Detroit, I'd be unhappy. The New Orleans area had to have one good hurricane on target, catch part of another, and get heavily flooded to lose all those people. Detroit simply had to be its own sweet self.
Wayne, Macomb, & Wastenaw counties (and others) are all feeling the seismic changes occurring with the big three.
Think of it this way, some folks commute an hr or greater to get to their auto related job site. Flint is feeling it too, that is quite a drive from Detroit.
Many some folks should look at a map of South East Michigan to really get a feel for what is going on.
Yeah, and the only reason Detroit is behind New Orleans in population loss is that a lot of the New Orleans refugees moved to Detroit.