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It's a snowball effect. With the industrial decline that's been happening in MI, other businesses slow as a result. Automotive suppliers left, local businesses dried up, white and middle-class flight, and then the crash of 07 is the cherry on top. So not only is it not a stretch, the decline of the auto industry is in fact the root of the problem. Suggesting that "democrats" are responsible because they were the ones at the helm is disingenuous at best. For a city that was built on and relied so heavily on industry, this was a disaster waiting to happen, and would have happened regardless of who was in the hot seat.
The auto industry was already weak back in 1980, yet you still think that is the source of Detroit's financial failure. It's laughable. The "white flight" was mostly done by 1967, hardly a factor, as black families poured in to fill the jobs that they left, so why did the local businesses dry up? The Top 10 employers in Detroit are not auto industry related - that is fact. Most of the Top 10 were created after the auto industry had already reduced its size, so they actually are creating new jobs in Detroit.

BTW - Up until 1962, most of Detroit's mayors were Republican. After 1962, all of them have been Democrats - every single one.
List of mayors of Detroit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia