Yeah, that was a good article Furio..
I was also very surprised at the white vs blacks ratio in Detroit, I never knew that. I always wondered why I saw so many black people coming to old Les Gold for cash in that show Hardcore Pawn, this explains a lot. That guy is the quintessential Shylock for me, he could play the lead in the next big screen adaptation of The merchant of Venice.
Yes is ugly to say in the 1950s when Detroit was rich the whites was the 83.6% of the totals.
Detroit remains one of the most racially segregated cities in the United States.[135][136] From the 1940s to the 1970s a second wave of Blacks moved to Detroit to escape Jim Crow laws in the south and find jobs.[137] However, they soon found themselves excluded from white areas of the city—through violence, laws, and economic discrimination (e.g., redlining).White residents attacked black homes: breaking windows, starting fires, and exploding bombs.The pattern of segregation was later magnified by white migration to the suburbs.
the italians are 280.000 in metro detroit so for this I say that the Detroit family was small compared to the east coast families but for the detroit standard are still viable.
