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by jessaustin 3103 days ago
The point is that this is a city with a large majority of blacks, and it just so happens to have terrible police. That isn't a contingent circumstance.
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Anyone with any money left as soon as possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Detroit#/media/File... Since Detroit has a storied history of racism, most of the poor people who have remained are black. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit... The state of public services is bad because there is no money left, not because the place is full of black people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Detroit#/media/File...
Everyone with money left well before 1990, the vast majority of white flight took place in the 60s, 70s, and 80s

Edit sp332, lol yes 2/3 of the white population remaining in 1990 left after that, the problem with your line of thinking is 86% of the white population had already fled by 1990. 2/3 of 14% is not much...

2/3 of the white population in 1990 has now left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Detroit...

Edit: ok so I don't see where we're disagreeing.