Inner Cities>backward rural areas
I love cities and I especially love my city (with all of its problems) but to deny that there are real problems and that the Democrats are mostly to blame is total hackery.
Now that's hackery right there if I've ever seen it.
The plight of inner cities is a bipartisan f**k up, beginning after WWII with the policies of the Eisenhower administration that promoted mass movement out to the suburbs... in response, poor blacks from the south saw a chance to get some cheap real estate in the cities up north where they believed there were better chances for them, so they moved up.
But with the whites, went the tax revenues and cities began to crumble.
This prompted more white flight and racial tensions began to rise...
This is where the Democrats came in and caused problems. They thought "well, if we just tear all the abandoned buildings down, that'll help"... urban renewal destroyed the heart of many of our cities... not to mention the civil rights movement happening on top of all of this and race riots.
Some cities began to reform in the 1970s and into the '80s... like New York.. or even Minneapolis. While other cities continued to bleed population during the '80s, Minneapolis lost 2000 people.
In fact, during this time, condos became popular downtown again.
Now since, it has been liberals who have suggested things that actually work: Keeping kids in school and off the streets after school, promoted mixed income neighborhoods and developments, and upping the police presence on the streets...
Sure, it hasn't all been fixed... but cities that have followed many of these policies, like Minneapolis, have been improved greatly since bottoming out in the late '70s.
