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You have referenced racial problems a number of times. What would those problems be and in what way are they ingrained?
There are countless book written about it, countless studies written about it. In short, Detroit has been one of the most racially divided communities in the nation for a very long time. This goes back a full century after the great southern migration to the north and midwest. It proved to be one of the great factors in the exodus of whites from the city in the Fifties and Sixties which caused the decline in population and the decline in tax collections.
http://www.neurope.eu/news/wire/det...-troubled-racial-history-blamed-citys-decline
The "Arsenal of Democracy" that supplied the Allied victory of World War II and evolved into the "Motor City" fell into a six-decade downward spiral of job losses, shrinking population and a plummeting tax base. Detroit's singular reliance on an auto industry that stumbled badly and its long history of racial strife proved a disastrous combination.
"Most Midwest cities had white flight and segregation. But Detroit had it more intensely. Most cities had deindustrialization. Detroit had it more intensely," said Kevin Boyle, a history professor at Northwestern University who has written extensively about his hometown.
I would advise people who want documented historical detail to read Professor Boyle's works.
Racial strife also infected the city. The migration of blacks into Detroit, which helped power its economic rise, was followed by an exodus of white residents for the suburbs. In the last decade alone — from 2000 to 2010 — Detroit lost about a quarter-million residents. The city's current population of roughly 700,000 is about 83 percent black.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Race_Riot_(1943)
http://www.67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm
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