Don’t Get Detroit-ed: Majority-Black Harrisburg Goes the Way of the Motor City
17th March 2012
The capital city of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg is 52 percent Black (and only 30 percent white) as of the latest US Census.
Though not as big as the failure of Jefferson County, Alabama and the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history (primarily courtesy of the financial mismanagement of 71 percent Birmingham), Harrisburg is an insolvent capital city. With virtually no tax-base (cities that are primarily comprised of Black people tend to have that problem), Harrisburg relies on parking garages and parking meters to as primary cash-generating assets, bankruptcy appears inevitable.
Whatever you do, don’t step in the diversity.