That’s interesting because I recall the 1-94 corridor “burning” to some degree in 67 ^and^ 68; Benton Harbor, Kazoo, BC, Albion, Jacktown, Ypsi, Detroit.
That’s when these small urban enclaves got the nickname, “Little Detroit”. Albion locals use it to this day.
He says the average retiree gets $18,000 a year. That is everyone clumped together, including people surviving on SS. It’s the CITY union retirees that have helped bankrupt the city. And they are probably living in the burbs. Typical liberal, skew the numbers using unrelated data.
And Albion is the blackest of all the smaller towns but the Albion blacks were a whole different breed. They were workers.
I worked with a black guy from Albion in a factory in Jackson and Charlie hated the Jackson bunch and they hated him.