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Overnight Open Thread (7-22-2013)Detroit's 60-Year Decline into Bankruptcy Hell The 1967 riots weren't the root cause but they were a definite inflection point in the city's decline: It's hard to overstate the traumatic and lingering effects of the 1967 riots, which for many older native Detroiters forever marked the watershed in the city's downward economic spiral and triggered the mass exodus of its population. Young wrote in a 1994 memoir, as he was leaving office, that the city never recovered from the riots. And Michael Barone concurs: When people ask me why I moved from liberal to conservative, I have a one-word answer: Detroit. I grew up there, on a middle-class grid street in northwest Detroit and a curving street in affluent suburban Birmingham, and I got a job as an intern in the office of the mayor in the summer of 1967 when Detroit rioted. I was at the side of Mayor Jerome Cavanagh and occasionally Governor George Romney during the six days and nights in which 43 people, mostly innocent bystanders, died. I listened to the radio in the police commissioner's office as commanders announced, shortly after sundown, that they were abandoning one square mile after another. The riot ended only after federal troops were called in and restored order. And here are some reasons why Detroit is unlikely to ever recover: 2) Detroit is facing $20 billion in debt and unfunded liabilities. That breaks down to more than $25,000 per resident. And a modest proposal on how to deal with the denizens of Detroit.
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