"Dave Balderstone" wrote:

Try looking at Detroit through Google Earth.

It's incredible. Entire blocks with only one house left. Lots of
entire
blocks...

That's VERY old news.

Came as a direct result of the Detroit race riots of the 60s.

Whitey fled to the burbs in mass leaving a dust trail behind after the
riots.

Ask somebody, "Where you from?", and they would answer "burb name of
choice", never "Detroit".

East side of Cleveland was abandoned in the same way after the 60s
riots there.

Still abandoned when I left 20 years ago.

Lew