A recent article in National Review describes the large population loss in Detroit, as hard-working, middle-class Blacks have left the city in droves. It goes on to recall how the “White Flight” from the inner cities in the 1970s and 80s was blamed on racism by the politically correct mainstream media. The conclusion: maybe people (of all races) just want to live in a safe environment.
Not only did whites want to live in a safe environment but they had Coleman Young issuing some vaguely threatening, Robert Mugabe-like statement every other week.
The riots in ‘68 hurt them very badly too, burning thousands of buildings. The trouble got out as far as 6 mile. White suburbanites had armed themselves and were gathering along 8 mile. Fortunately for all concerned the rioters never made it that far. But it disabused any thinking person of wanting to live in Detroit.