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. Ruined homes in the Brush Park Area near downtown Detroit:
Ruined Houses in the Highland Park Area
Above: A house and the 'Enid'apartment building (built 1925), on the right. Above: Rear views of the north and south wings of a large brownstone apartment building
The overgrown and trash littered front entrance of the large brownstone apartment building pictured above.
The west side of the large apartment building is partially visible above a foreground building.
Continuation of the west side of the large apartment building is visible behind parked vehicles. THANKS TO GROVER LLOYD FOR THESE PICTURES To the Next Page of the Ruins of Detroit All material (c) copyright Ostara Publications, 1999. Re-use for commercial purposes strictly forbidden. |
