Detroit did the same thing but the TNB keeps whites out. You really can't even drive while white in Detroit.  From what I hear, N.O. might be worth saving still. But you are right about Detroit. I was born and raised in south east Michigan about an hour from Detroit, and that place is GONE!! There is ZERO hope for resurrecting Detroit, it may as well have been nuked. Theres a couple blocks of downtown that has actually been fixed up pretty nice these days. But you leave that one little zone and you might as well be stepping into Liberia or Haiti, not much difference at all. I am not exaggerating. Blocks full of abandoned and burned down houses. Packs of stray ferile dogs roaming the streets. Trash everywhere, gang bangers, crack heads, winos, hookers everywhere. The place is a post apocalyptic nightmare :( This is the fate that awaits all of the rest of our country to if something isn't done about things very soon.