Do the people in that city have any pride? Do they care? How come very few white people live in Detroit?
2006-09-18 07:19:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Very few white poeple live in Detroit because they can afford not to.
Detroit is siimilar to many Rust Belt Cities. African Americans moved there in great numbers during the 30s-50s. At the same time, suburbia was created and white folks who could afford it were moving out of inner cities.
The future of a city is often an accident of geography. Cities with small urban cores can find that their tax base disappears completely as industries contract. Service industries no longer need to be located downtown, so new jobs are created in the suburbs, out of the reach and skillset of the urban poor.
With no tax base and net job losses, cities cannot provide basic services to their residents. State governments are unwilling or unable to allocate resources from wealthier, more politically connected parts of a state.
As a result, the entire city becomes a ghetto. I think East St. Louis and Camden are worse than Detroit.
2006-09-18 07:33:01 · answer #1 · answered by roguetrader2000 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born and raised in Detroit, and I have plenty of pride for my city. Yeah, go ahead and talk bad about Detroit. So what if it's run down and dirty. Give us some time and our sh*t will be off the hook. This ain't Las Vegas or Miami. Ain't no hot weather or palm trees. Just plain ghetto. And you know why. Because we have Kwame Kilpatrick for our Mayor. But you know what, if Detroit is so run down and dirty, then why was the Superbowl here earlier this year? As far as the white folks, they're in the suburbs. Try Birmingham, Beverly Hills, or West Bloomfield. You ain't gonna see too many across 8 Mile Road or should I say Base Line.
2006-09-18 14:28:59 · answer #2 · answered by Loni J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not all of the city is bad. I live a few miles outside of Detroit (aka Metro-Detroit area) and usually the city does give the place a bad reputation. It does need fixing up, but the government refuses to do things for the citizens. They just care about their image, not the image of the city. While it does have it's high points, people who have never been there could care less about that...it's still, run down, crime filled Detroit to them. Sad but true.
2006-09-18 14:26:08 · answer #3 · answered by 4eyed zombie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because, the people really don't care what the city looks like. They are lazy and useless.
The only thing they care about is when the next check will arrive. There should be something called workfare, where they have to help clean up the city, before they get their free handout.
Why would anyone, of any color, want to live in filth?
2006-09-18 14:27:15 · answer #4 · answered by cab veteran 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Detroit is too dependant on the ups and downs of the automotive industry. Auto worker have boom-times when everyone is working and then they have times when everyone is laid off. It's a volitile economic situation. When you're working overtime, you have plenty of money to improve your community, but no time to do it. When you're laid off, you have the time but not the money. At least I think that's what it is.
Eminem probably knows.
2006-09-18 14:33:21 · answer #5 · answered by anyone 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Find any city that doesn't have its rundown sections. There are 110578 african americans in detroit, 78507 caucasions, 490 American Indians/Eskimos/Aleuts, 793 Asian/Pacific Islander, 2955 Hispanic(can be any of the above) and 1056 "other" according to the census
2006-09-18 14:24:35 · answer #6 · answered by Jep 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Watch Farenheit 911...that may shed some answers. But Detroit is a tidy bowl forgot. Its just too north of government America...and Toronto's garbage gets dumped there. But I heard that's stopped now.
2006-09-18 14:24:11 · answer #7 · answered by Clock Watcher 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
detroit is a terrible city... I wouldn't live there... It's a mess, and I would love to know why too!
2006-09-18 14:20:37 · answer #8 · answered by Melissa :) 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is because the mayors have used the tax money for their own purposes and not for the city.
2006-09-18 14:21:44 · answer #9 · answered by Ducasse 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because it was built up and than abandoned by the automobile industry. This could happen to any city built around any industry and then abandoned.
2006-09-18 14:24:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋