Last year Michael Moore tweeted, “Flint has voted for Dems for 84 straight yrs” and wanted to know, “What did it get us?”
Reason magazine’s Robby Soave reminds us, who have "robbed city residents blind to pad the pockets of public sector unions." They’ve also been in charge as Flint has become one the country’s poorest cities (the second poorest, says the Census Bureau, for a city of its size), and a haven for criminals
Fbis newest release of americas most violent cites. the common denominator? Democratic rule for over 50 years since the civil rights movement
The most dangerous cities in America
1. St louis
St. Louis has been electing Democratic mayors since 1949.
2. Detroit
Detroit last elected a Republican mayor in 1957when it had a median income on par with Manhattan , today its coming out of bankruptcy . It is the poorest big city in the nation, with almost 40% of the population living below the poverty line.
Detroit is also a pit of political corruption. Just in recent years, one mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, was convicted of corruption and sent to federal prison for 28 years,
Other places include Birmingham,Baltimore Oakland etc
Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936
Buffalo, NY hasn’t elected republican mayorsince 1954;
Cleveland, OH … since 1989;
Milwaukee, WI since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA since 1952;
Newark, NJ since 1907.
This was back in 2014 but nothing has changed much
The cities with populations over 200,000 ranked as the most dangerous are:
Detroit, MI - Mayor Mike Duggan - DEMOCRAT
Oakland, CA - Mayor Jean Quan - DEMOCRAT
Memphis, TN - Mayor A C Wharton - DEMOCRAT
St. Louis, MO - Mayor Francis G. Slay - DEMOCRAT
Cleveland, OH - Mayor Frank G. Jackson - DEMOCRAT
Baltimore, MD - Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake - DEMOCRAT
Milwaukee, WI - Mayor Tom Barrett - DEMOCRAT
Birmingham, AL - Mayor William A. Bell - DEMOCRAT
Newark, NJ - Mayor Ras Baraka - DEMOCRAT
Kansas City, MO - Mayor Sly James - Independent (but probably a DEMOCRAT)