No need to be offended JCB, no offense intended. I'm not in court and history itself backs my claim. Mob infested towns were hit harder and fell faster. Truly it's never just one thing that caused our country's current predicament but that wasn't the subject of this post was it? At 50 I see more and more the difference between book learning and theory and experience. Those towns were all in decline *whether noticeable or not since the early to mid 50's. Not to mention the siphoning still continues to this day.