Outer Perimeter

All along, the state’s involvement — including Mr. Snyder’s decision to send in an emergency manager — has carried racial implications, setting off a wave of concerns for some in Detroit that the mostly white Republican-led state government was trying to seize control of Detroit, a Democratic city where more than 80 percent of residents are black. (NYT, 7/18/2013)

The New York Times provides the Liberal explanation for the Detroit bankruptcy: White Republicans want to take over control of Black Detroit. Could it be in order to enslave its residents? The Times does not say....but maybe.

The RedStateVT explanation (you heard it here first yesterday) is that Detroit has been run by Democrats since 1962. That is why it is bankrupt.