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America's Dying Cities
www.mainstreet.com ^ | January 21, 2011 | Seth Fiegerman

Posted on 01/21/2011 3:04:17 PM PST by lowbridge

In several dozen cities nationwide, the population actually declined significantly as residents presumably began to flee the region’s toxic financial atmosphere, or perhaps in some cases, even held off on having kids due to a lack of resources.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: detroit; dyingcities
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1. New Orleans
2. Vallejo, Calif.
3. Hialeah, Fla.
4. Rochester, N.Y.
5. Cleveland
6. Pittsburgh
7. Detroit
8. South Bend, Ind.
9. Flint, Mich.
10. Grand Rapids, Mich.
1 posted on 01/21/2011 3:04:21 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

No surprise with regard to New Orleans, which may never recover fully from the hurricane.


2 posted on 01/21/2011 3:07:13 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: lowbridge

I think some cities, like Detroit, are actually going to see much higher population losses once census data is released.


3 posted on 01/21/2011 3:07:19 PM PST by rstrahan
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To: lowbridge

Any word on which party the mayors of those cities are affiliated with?


4 posted on 01/21/2011 3:08:36 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Bringing children to America without immigration documents is child abuse. Let's end it.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Detroit in RUINS! (Crowder goes Ghetto) is the single best explanation of what happens when unions and liberals take control.
I highly recommend folks watch it.
5 posted on 01/21/2011 3:09:05 PM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: Clintonfatigued

Too much is below sea level. It is crazy to live there.


6 posted on 01/21/2011 3:09:21 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: lowbridge

Look for this list to grow much larger soon. Most large liberal cities were propped up by stimulus money but that is running out soon.

Anybody would be a fool to remain living in a big city for if lawlessness comes they will be dangerous places to be.


7 posted on 01/21/2011 3:10:07 PM PST by fuzzybutt (Democrat Lawyers are the root of all evil.)
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To: lowbridge
Its quite simple really..

Capitalism creates wealth....
Socialism uses that wealth up..

** Note: socialism eventually runs of others peoples MONEY..

8 posted on 01/21/2011 3:10:11 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: lowbridge

6. Pittsburgh ain’t bad lately and has reinvented itself to some extent.

8. South Bend has some very nice spots and very affordable. The RV industry is dead but Northern Indiana has re-invented it self several times. If all the English leave the Amish will be happy to buy the land and start farming.


9 posted on 01/21/2011 3:11:41 PM PST by BeAllYouCanBe (Until Americans love their own children more than they love Nancy Pelosi this suicide will continue.)
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To: lowbridge
Super cities are simply not required anymore for civilization. Decentralized transport, the internet, and division of labor have changed the face of America.

Parasitic unions and demoncrats just killed the weak and already dying.

/johnny

10 posted on 01/21/2011 3:15:07 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: lowbridge

1. New Orleans
2. Vallejo, Calif.
3. Hialeah, Fla.
4. Rochester, N.Y.
5. Cleveland
6. Pittsburgh
7. Detroit
8. South Bend, Ind.
9. Flint, Mich.
10. Grand Rapids, Mich.

Add Opalocka liberty city and Overtown Dade County Fla to that Democrat inspired mess.


11 posted on 01/21/2011 3:15:16 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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Vallejo, Calif??

I'm in CA....Where in hell is Vallejo? Is it big enough to be a city?

lol...

12 posted on 01/21/2011 3:15:41 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: lowbridge

cities? lack of resources?

I was always told by leftists that cities were so superior we should all be forced to live in them.

of course they fail to see irony in that


13 posted on 01/21/2011 3:16:04 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
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To: lowbridge

All these cities seem to be in the east and midwest...

Seems to be a trend back there.


14 posted on 01/21/2011 3:17:26 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I wouldn’t give up so soon on New Orleans. There may still be hope.


15 posted on 01/21/2011 3:18:34 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: lowbridge

Grand Rapids? Really?

If anything it’s because our school system sucks beyond all that could suck.

Other than that, we are in fairly decent shape, mostly in part to the generous conservative Dutch families spending billions of their wealth on projects for a bunch of ungrateful local leftists that spend most of their time taking cheap shots at them. Also, having a loopy, but mostly powerless, lefty mayor doesn’t help.


16 posted on 01/21/2011 3:22:39 PM PST by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: lowbridge; RaceBannon; scoopscandal; 2Trievers; LoneGOPinCT; Rodney King; sorrisi; MrSparkys; ...

All major cities in Connecticut. They’ve been dead for several years. IMO anyway...


17 posted on 01/21/2011 3:25:13 PM PST by nutmeg (The 111th Congress: Worst. Congress. Ever.)
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To: lowbridge

But Detroit 1-8-7 says on every episode that Detroit is coming back. Hollywood wouldn’t lie to us, now would they?


18 posted on 01/21/2011 3:26:13 PM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: lowbridge
If you're looking for a city that is not dying, that is enjoying a resurgence, look no further than Oklahoma City.
19 posted on 01/21/2011 3:27:39 PM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: lowbridge

Pittsburgh has lost a lot of population over the past decade or so as many of the housing projects have been razed, so its actually not so bad.

However, the city government is still over extended and still controlled by knuckleheads.


20 posted on 01/21/2011 3:28:05 PM PST by I_Like_Spam
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