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The city of Detroit has experienced a major population shift to its suburbs. Its population dropped from its peak in 1950 with a population of 1,849,568 to 886,675 in 2005. The city population ranking amongst American cities dropped from 4th largest to 11th.
As of 2001, the city of Detroit had 81.55% African American or black, 12.26% white, 0.33% Native American, 0.97% Asian 0.03% Pacific Islander, 2.54% from other races, and 2.32% from two or more races. 4.96% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race. The city's foreign-born population stood at 4.8%, one of the lowest percentages of the 50 largest cities in the country.
...Some 72% of all Detroit children are born to single mothers.
...The National Institute for Literacy declared in 1998 that 47% of Detroiters were "functionally illiterate."[71]
Detroit was ranked the most Liberal city in America by the Bay Area Center for Voting Research.[72]Последнее, ясное дело, умилило больше всего...