Why is Detroit shrinking?

[nain rouge]

Many of those recent arrivals found work in the new plants out in those "suburban communities" and commuted from their homes in Detroit. Yes, housing opportunities in those "suburban communities" at that time were non-existent for blacks and they faced blatant racism in the workplace, including the Hudson Naval Ordnance plant at the northeast corner of Mound and Nine Mile Roads. But those black workers prevailed and it was the white ringleaders who were fired out there in that supposedly isolated "bubble".

Let's just ignore that as early as the '50s, black unemployment was nearly triple white unemployment in Detroit, and that Metro Detroit has nationally been recognized as one the most [[if not the most) racially segregated areas in the US. Yet to some, that's somehow all a coincidence. But while the they cling to anecdotes [[a father's plant, the firing of a couple white ringleaders in a single factory), the overall statistics reveal the truth.

Regarding your comment about "poor planning", what kind of overt planning, "poor" or otherwise was used against blacks?

One of the main premises behind the freeways [[which, in Detroit, coincidentally meant destroying the historic black community of Black Bottom), suburbs, and etc. was to facilitate the creation of safe havens for the American dream, which meant excluding that which was undesirable. For many middle class whites in the mid-20th century, you know what that meant. But I know you and others will disagree. I can't wait to hear how Warren was in fact racially tolerant.