Posted on 08/26/2010 10:45:30 AM PDT by dragnet2
Most of America’s Ten Dead Cities were once major manufacturing hubs and others were important ports or financial services centers. The downfall of one city, New Orleans, began in the 1970s, but was accelerated by Hurricane Katrina.
Notably, the rise of inexpensive manufacturing in Japan destroyed the ability of the industrial cities on this list to effectively compete in the global marketplace. Foreign business activity and US government policy were two of the three major blows that caused the downfall of these cities. The third was the labor movement and its demands for higher compensation which ballooned the costs of manufacturing in many of these cities as well.
#1. Buffalo
#2. Flint
#3. Hartford
#4. Cleveland
#5. New Orleans
#6. Detroit
#7. Albany
#8. Atlantic City
#9. Allentown
#10. Galveston.
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Let me guess -— all run for decades by DhminiCRAPS.
Cities run bt Demoncrats?
More truthful statement IMHO.
These two parasitic groups will continue to conspire to feed off the US taxpayer host until all are dead
I take it, these are all cities run by Demoncrats?
With the exception of Allentown, these cities all have something very important in common. I’ll leave it up to your imaginations. Most here will get it.
What, no Cleveland, Dayton or Middletown?
“Let me guess -— all run for decades by DhminiCRAPS”
Of course.
But look a little further. All populated by people susceptible to democratic demagougery. “It’s us against the corporate Fat Cats”, etc.
I’m a native Clevelander. I’m afraid the people around here got what they wanted.
How did Youngstown, OH, escape that lise?
Galveston was hit pretty hard by Hurricane Ike in 2008.
Ooooo, MI made 2 of the top 10!
Cleveland is #4
Once the "queen city" of the great lakes, the railroad hub of the north, the largest of the grain exporting cities.. ships no longer needed to port here they could go right past us..
Then world trade hit the industries.. It is sad that a once Jewel has become a rock ..
I think most here would love to have the city break with NYS and become part of Ohio or Pa.
We are more mid west in our lifestyles and interests that we are "east coast ' and the political liberalism and taxes have smothered any opportunity for the city to get on its legs again .
We are 1/100 of the size we were and we have more layers of government and politicians than most anywhere.
The intersting thing abuot the one I know about personally - Hartford - is that a suburb of Hartford (sharing a 10 mile long border) was recently rated a top 5 place to live by (I think) Forbes.
Hartford’s problem isn’t hwat this article says, it’s that no one actually LIVES there; we all work there, but we live in the suburbs.
and in CT, ZERO tax dollars from any town goes to another town, so the cities like Hartford (And bridgeport and Waterbury and New Britain and Waterbury) all fall apart while the towns around them (relatively) thrive.
CT is an odd place to live.
What, Gary IN has turned into a boomtown?
Could somebody please run down the correlation amongst party leadership, union activity, and city health of these ten worst, and the ten best.
Found is strange that Galveston wound up on this list. I would think with its close proximity to Houston’s thriving economy and busy port, it would be thriving as well.
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