CSY Replay #15: Detroit Emerges From The Shunning

It required much, much more than just rising foreign auto competition and a sinking economy to fall as much as Detroit did for a half century. It required a shunning.

(Note: After I finished my last piece, I realized I left some things unexplained. I did not explain what I meant by the shunning, locally and nationally, Detroit received for an extended time. Nor did I explain the level of considerable “inside work” that rebuilt the social and corporate infrastructure of the city so that it could make a lasting comebac…