What if Detroit, Chicago (and other Northern cities) never fell?

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Originally Posted by IrishIllini

I wouldn’t Chicago (and Boston, DC, and Philadelphia) with Cleveland, Detroit, and St Louis. All these cities are below 1950 peaks, but their metro areas have more than doubled or close to it. I think NYC is the only city in the Midwest/Northeast to pass its 20th century high.

What corps did StL lose?

Yes, NYC is the only major city in the northeast quadrant of the country that is at its all time population high.

All of these cities, NYC included, declined for similar reasons. It was not a coincidence that almost all of these cities experienced their first population declines in the exact same decade. What we're seeing 70 years later is the effectiveness of the policies enacted (or lack of policies enacted).