Spoken like someone who has never lived in or spent time in the city. Detroit is like most former one industry town. The city and state depended on one industry (autos) and when that industry began to fail so did the city. It also did not help when white folk headed for the hills (Farmington Hills, Auburn Hills,etc.) because of real estate speculators and fear of the late Mayor Coleman A. Young. Buy the way the city was looking population before that. People are not so fearful that they do not come down to the city for football, baseball, Red Wings hockey games, the fire works, concerts or to gamble. Liberalism or liberals has very little to do with it.