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Originally Posted by Blitz
In Windsor it's Ouellette Avenue and in Detroit it's Woodward Avenue...they almost line up perfectly.
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I never thought about that, but you're right. Wow.
Another significant street in Detroit is the infamous 8 Mile Road. At one point, "8 Mile Road" was shorthand for black and white racial segregation in Metro Detroit. As recently as the 1990s, most of the suburbs on the north side of 8 Mile Road were less than 5% black (the notable exception is Southfield, which has had a large plurality of black residents since the 1980s). Nowadays, almost all of the suburbs along Detroit's northern border are at least 10%, and some of them are majority black.