RACIAL DISLOCATION
Detroit is 82% African American, while the Sorrounding suburbs are quite the
opposite. This is all in part of what was deemed "white flight." As middle class
white America gained greater access to automobiles, the majority decidided it
beneficial to move out of the city to the safety of the suburbs. This created a
huge racial and territorial rift between blacks and whites. Demonstrated here
clearly in one peripheral neighborhood of Detroit, a 3 feet tall concrete wall was
erected by a developer to coax whites to live in proximity to already present
African Americans. Accordingly, this divide plays heavily into the political climate
that manifested riots in the 1960's, and ethno-centric gornverning in the 1990's.
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