Ya, I have to agree with Michigan NOT being a vacation destination. I'm sure it has nice places like everywhere else, but who would want to go there to chill. I will say this, I go to Milwaukee every winter and I think the place is a shit hole..... but I am an hour north right now at Whistling Straits and it is gorgeous here on the water.
Good riddance to them! Seriously, if you can't afford to pay your employees a piddling $10/hr it can only be because you lack the basic intelligence required to operate a business. Step aside and let someone with a clue take your place. The truth is businesses (and it's original paler inhabitants) left Detroit because it became a mostly black town with a horrendous rate of violent crime, pollution and squalor, and once Reagan denuded the unions the last reason for staying there (income) began it's endless decline.
This is an interesting read about The Gross Pointes and the exodus of whites from Detroit. http://higley1000.com/archives/50
That was an interesting read. I'm not really sure what he's trying to say, but the stats he introduces are interesting.
This part was good... ---------- In the spring of 1960, a civil court suit unexpectedly shed light on how the real estate market operated in Grosse Pointe. The trial revealed that there was a screening system in effect in the Grosse Pointes that required real estate brokers to submit the name of a potential property purchase to the Grosse Pointe Property Owners Association. The Association then engaged a private detective to fill out an investigative questionnaire. As was written in the pamphlet Rights, a publication of the Anti-defamation League of B’nai B’rith ( N. Braverman, 1960), “The filled out questionnaire was then turned over by the Association to a committee of brokers which totaled up the scored points and sent it back to the Association. They made the final evaluation as to whether or not the prospective buyer had made a passing grade.” Out of a maximum of 100 points, a passing grade was based on a sliding scale for different nationalities; “Poles would pass with 55 points, Southern Europeans with 75, Jews with 85.” Negroes and “Orientals” were not even eligible; their disqualification was automatic.” The point system considered such details as whether the prospective buyer was “American” or “Americanized,” if his occupation was typical of his own race, or if either the Mr. or Mrs. was “swarthy” in appearance or spoke with an accent. The private detective was also asked to find out about the prospective buyer’s reputation and how the outside and inside of his previous home was maintained.” (How this was determined without being a peeping tom was not in the court record!). “There was a question as to whether the buyer dressed “neat” or “slovenly;” and “conservative” or “flashy.” The trial even revealed that a new form had been introduced, the “blue form,” because too many Jews were passing the existing point system. The real estate brokers were constantly tinkering with the system to keep “undesirables” out of the Grosse Pointes. The trial also revealed that the system had been adopted in 1945
