Flint is one of many cities in Americas rustbelt, like Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh,Youngstown and Rochester, which have seen dramatic drops in population over the past halfcentury or so. When manufacturing left these cities, so did their residents. In 1968, GeneralMotors, which was founded in Flint, employed 80,000 employees there. Today, there are only6,000. The citys population has halved since 1960, falling from 197,000 to just over 100,000;proportionately, it has suffered nearly as badly as Michigans largest city, Detroit. Many unableto sell were forced to abandon their houses. Others lost their homes to foreclosure. Therustbelt cities of the Midwest and north-east have been in decline for decades, but it has takendecades for many of them to accept that no one was coming to save them.
弗林特是处在锈带的众多城市的其中之一,其他城市像底特律,克里夫兰,水牛城,匹兹堡,杨斯敦和罗切斯特,都在过去的大约半个世纪内,经历了人口大幅下滑。随着制造业离开了这些城市,城市的居民也随之离开了。在1968年,通用汽车在弗林特,也就是它成立的地方,雇佣了 80000名员工。而今天,只剩下了6000名。城市的人口数相较于1960年的197000己经下降了一半,至100000出头。与此相类似的是密歇根最大的城市底特律,它的情况一样糟,许多人卖不出被强制将房子闲置。另一些人失去了他们的家并丧失了赎回权。中西部和东北部的锈带城市在过去的几十年里都有不同程度的衰落,但是他们花了几十年才接受这样一个事实,即没有人会来拯救他们。
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