Appendix 1: THE MULTI-RACIAL DECLINE OF CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY

THE RUINS OF DETROIT

Please note: This photographic essay is not meant to imply that all areas of the cities in question resemble the photographs. These pictures merely reflect regions, or suburbs, where White Flight has been the most extreme.

According to the 2000 US census, 88% of Detroit's population is non-White. This percentage is even higher in the city center. Detroit qualifies as the most ruined city in the USA. In addition to massive White Flight, the non-White residents started the tradition - which has spread to other cities - of "Devil's Night". This is the habit or burning down parts of the city on the night before Halloween.

A huge non-White population, combined with annual arson attacks, bankruptcy, crime and decay, have combined to make Detroit - once the USA's leading automotive industrial center - into a ruin comparable with those of the ancient civilizations - with the cause being identical: the replacement of the White population who built the city, with a new non-White population.

Above: Three blocks east of Alter Road - the border with the Grosse Pointe Park.  The fields to the left are an excellent example of the re-vegetation of the area which results from the collapsing ruins becoming overgrown - see a following page which shows a satellite image of the 'greening' effect at work in Detroit.)

Above: These streets were once bustling White neighborhoods - now totally leveled ruins, visible on satellite images as green fields.

Above: A ruined East Side home with anti-police obscenities spray-painted on the front.

Above: The isolated remains of an east side home which has been ravaged by fire.  The adjacent neighborhood has been razed.

Above: An East Side home which appears to have been the target of a very successful arson attack.

Another ruined apartment building.

A former storefront . . .

Thanks to Grover Lloyd for the pictures on this page

To the Ruins of the Fisher Body Plant on Piquette Ave

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