What you say is all well and good; however, how could this city now look like a Hooverville?
Do you think it’s because of the tractor revolution in the South where cotton pickers were no longer needed and the pickers made it up to Dee-troit where the streets were thought to be paved with gold?
It takes deliberation to completely ruin neighborhoods that were once the workers’ pride and glory.
Not disagreeing with the main thrust of the article. Only pointing out that the free market in cars had a lot to do with the city’s collapse.
Many other cities lost their main industries and reinvented themselves doing something else.
Detroit lost their industry and didn’t replace it with anything. No base means the government crumbles.