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‘What turned Detroit into ‘Detroilet”?

July 22, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Jim Goad:

If the city’s politicians and residents started adopting conservative ideas, goes the reasoning, the healing would begin.

But there’s a glaring problem with that theory.

Cities such as San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and Austin are as ideologically progressive as Andrea Dworkin’s cellulite, yet none of them resembles the dark side of the moon like Detroit does.

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