I’ve heard some areas of Detroit never recovered after the 1967 riots there.
And I know of some parts of the Washington DC riot zone, which took decades to become redeveloped after the ‘68 riots following the killing of Martin Luther King.
This is not shocking news about Ferguson.
It will be interesting to see what else happens in the future there. Up until now, Ferguson was about 2/3 black and about 1/3 white. Some white liberals actually had thought Ferguson was a model of a diverse community, before all of the troubles.
I would imagine that most if not all of the 1/3 white residents are planning to leave. And the good decent black residents, are also moving out. In less than 5 years, Ferguson will be 99% black, and they will be ghetto black, as opposed to any decent working, law abiding residents.
Dayton, Ohio never recovered from those nationwide race riots as they were called back then. Today, Dayton is a shell of the GEM City that had over 1M jobs and taxpayers to today when the tax payers number about 345K. The population of Dayton corresponding suffers from the White Flight that took place, and as the residents left so did the manufacturing when Unions demanded too much.