“...white flight to the suburbs rightly earn a place as a driver of the city’s blight”
And what exactly drove the whites to flee the city?
Funny how the departure of 400,000 whites from Detroit to the suburbs between 1950 and 1960 are never mentioned, but the departure of the next 400,000 between 1960 and 1970 is indicative of a "white problem" even though whites were running in fear for their families' safety after the riots. When NINETY-FIVE PERCENT of a population departs a relatively small location, in just two generations, that's a really huge indicator of a problem... and the Left willfully ignores any mention of it.
(Just before the 1967 Riots, there were 1.1 million whites in Detroit. There are now 55,000. They peaked at 1.5 million in 1950.)
Another interesting stat: Despite a less-than-1% growth rate from 1970 to 2000, blacks went from 10% of Detroit's population in 1940 to 90% in 2010.