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Detroit - liberal, democrat bastion


hasn't had a GOP mayor since 1962. Detroit keeps voting in the same party over and over again and expecting different results. Insanity

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Let me guess, you are from Mississippi?

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Political parties don't matter in this case. Under Governor John Engler, who was a prominant Republican governor, money was constantly diverted to the more affluent suburbs and away from projects to help Detroit. Admittedly though, Detroit has had periods of terrible Democrat mayors like Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick. Dennis Archer was a good Democrat mayor in between the two of them, however.

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i agree with spacer1. it's not a party matter. it's a matter of all of our politicians at the local, state and federal level just being bought out to serve corporate wishes over the people.

tariffs are way out of balance and have been forever. we don't protect our country. politicians are selling off the usa to any bidder.

no one cares about the jobs of the american worker.

i don't know if we will recover.

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You read my mind.

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I love read such thoroughly uninformed claptrap like what mpachankis posted. Always the sign of a poster with nothing but debunked right wing talking points.

Since the end of the 1960s Detroit has been a predominantly African American town. Everyone knows this. Most of all, the GOP knows this. They have shown no inclination to be competitive and try and earn the African American vote. Esp. since they spent about all of the 1970s and '80s appealing to the Archie Bunker vote- mostly by scapegoating blacks, and urban poor blacks at that. Gee, I wonder why nobody in Detroit has voted for the GOP since 1962?

Mpachankis is in desperate need of reading up on the effects of runaway manufacturing and old urban areas of the Rust Belt. The Republicans have had no problem to appealing to finding state money for the predominantly white suburbs that ring the older cities of the Rust Belt. But somehow, the large cities with their much larger and older infrastructure, have to go it alone with their higher maintenance costs. This is the Republican party "punishing" the larger, more liberal, more unionized, and less white cities with the aid and agreement of the far whiter suburban and rural areas.

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I agree with mpachankis. Detroit doesn't have to study China. First, study US cities and states that are still attracting businesses.

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