The death of a city

This statistic from Matt Feeney at The American Scene is truly stunning:

Over the last 50 years, Detroit has lost almost a million of its former 1.85 million people. About three-quarters of those one million people were white.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2008/08/the-death-of-a-city/4013/