Re: Can Detroit get any worse?
Reply #67 –
So I take you can't answer why some of the most prosperous cities in America, host to some of the most admired companies in the world are headed by Democrats. Neither can you answer why the entire states mired in poverty are controlled by Republicans. Out of the top 100 cities in the country, 67 are headed by Democrats and 27 are by Republicans. The remainder are independents (such as Las Vegas) and have unknown party affiliations (including a non-partisan mayor's office.) Get it? Slightly more than 2/3 of America's large cities are run by Democrats, so automatically this means the poor large cities are run by that party. This also means that most of the prosperous ones are run by Democrats. But why is that we have Red states with poverty exceeding 20% of the population? Entire states, not just troubled post-industrial cities in the Midwest.
You wanted cities names? Mobile Alabama, with a poverty rate ~30%. Red states are full of this. Nearly all of Appalachia has been run by Republicans and has been mired in poverty for decades? Why haven't the Republican leaders there did anything about it? I'm sure Detroit has had incompetent Democratic leadership. But entire regions of the country have suffered similarly under incompetent Republican leadership.