![]() Now, in Guns, Blacks, and Steel, Kersey shows how cities like Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Rochester, and Savannah are on course for the same type of economic Armageddon that has destroyed the former Motor City. Paul Kersey documented the collapse of Detroit in the underground bestseller Escape From Detroit, published one year before the city's 2013 bankruptcy. And the implosion of property values for both commercial and residential urban real estate made equity the unspoken casualty of America's new urban war. ![]() Urban whites became refugees, fleeing to the safety of white-flight suburbia. Louis became urban combat zones as extreme black-on-black gun violence exploded in the streets. Washington D.C., New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Philadelphia, and St. ![]() With the advent of federal civil rights legislation in the 1960s, America's cities went to war. ![]()
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