For people who are curious about the history of Detroit.
"This is to say nothing of what the psychological status of the city was after this. Not too long after the 1967 Detroit riots did the city begin to experience, what's known locally, as the great white flight, where the whites of the city couldn't get out fast enough, moving mostly to the outlying suburbs on their handsome automotive incomes. This continued well into the 1980s and left Detroit in a state of great disarray. The 1970s and 1980s weren't a very good time for the city, both because of poor city management, as well as fiscal, legal, and social problems. As for culture in this period, there wasn't any! The Detroit Symphony Orchestra had been out of the city for years. There were little or no sports teams in the city, itself, with the exception of the Tigers, and there was little or no draw to the city.
It was in this time that the rift between black and white grew too its worst point. Blacks, measuring at 82% of the population of Detroit based on the published 2001 census reports came to represent the population of Detroit-proper, whereas the suburbs were where the whites and a lot of the corporate money was. After the 1967 riots many businesses that had been in Detroit for years moved out, therefore there was no longer a reasonable economy in the city either. And with this we can't forget that during the 1970s and 1980s
the automobile industry was at an all time low with the imported Japanese cars coming into the market, and thousands of jobs being cut every week. By the mid 1980s things were as bad as they could get. Blacks, almost exclusively, dominated Detroit-proper, which for the most part was let go and only a handful of people lived above the poverty level, in fact most lived far below it. While this was the climate of the city in the mid 1980s, the suburbs and the whites, who almost exclusively dominated them thrived, and the economy swelled under Reaganomics."
http://www.urbanmozaik.com/2002.janu...a_detroit.html