Don’t Detroit America | National Review Online:"It was the Silicon Valley of its day; engineers, designers, and workers of all kinds flocked there.
By 1960, nearly 2 million people called the city home, and it boasted the highest per capita income in the nation.
That Detroit is dead.
The city’s population is now 700,000, with a 25 percent slide in the last decade alone.
That’s not a population decline — that’s an exodus.
People and businesses didn’t just move from Detroit, they fled.
And what they were fleeing was liberalism, the accumulated detritus of 50 straight years of Democratic leadership.
They kept fleeing until there was so little left for city leaders to tax — so little business left there from which to extract revenue — that Detroit was forced to declare bankruptcy.
Detroit is the Left’s Ground Zero. "
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