[ScottinVA]

This does not answer whether Detroit has a reason to exist

I'm not sure the case has been made that its continued existence is necessary.

[MasterGunner01]

Exactly correct. To survive as an entity, Detroit needs a reason to exist. I don't think it does any more because its real benefactor, the auto industry, has died there and relocated. The magnet that drew the masses there is gone.

The Democrat policies instituted by Mayor Coleman Young and successors have driven out business and the tax base, leaving only welfare parasites, corrupt unions, and even more corrupt politicians. There is no hope for Detroit. It will die of its own poisonous culture.