elektra
Platinum Member
It was the energy shortage? There are many factors, many facts. One fact is that auto production under Nixon and Ford was still great. Under Carter it dropped to zero.Now RW types will argue it was taxes and Democrats or whatever that drove the companies out. Or taxes and unions and democrats. The truth is that it was the auto companies that sealed their own fates in Detroit.
The auto industry was blindsided by the energy shortage of the 1970’s. Before you blame Carter remember it started under Nixon and Ford.
Either way, Detroit declined sharply after the 1967 Detroit Riots, Democrat Johnson comes to mind. Under Democrat Carter, we say the highest unemployment rates in Detroit. until Covid.
Who managed the government of the city of Detroit. Now we get into affirmative action and incompetence. So many things to consider.
Of course, some of the major Car Companies had folded under long before any of this, we then must go back to the 1950's.
The 1970's, how come you do not mention the environmental movement? Not in my backyard was a common theme when it came to build new factories. Taxes and lawsuits by the environmental movement drove business out of and away. Proof, we could look up the lawsuits, and the tax incentives other states gave the corporations to move.