Quote Originally Posted by mwilbert View Post
I actually can't think of any way in which it has done well, but maybe you have something in mind?
I don't feel the same way as you. I think the suburbs have done well. There's a lot of wealth, housing, businesses, nice places to live, etc...

But perhaps I should have said, "The rest of the region has done far better than Detroit".

My point was, that reliance on a single industry that fails doesn't result in a Detroit. Detroit was cause by many factors, one of those factors being the fall of the auto industry, but the more alarming cause of issues in Detroit is that black folks got stuck in one area, weren't allowed the same opportunities as white folks, as a result, we have a region with a middle class white suburb that goes around a poor Detroit that's 80% black.