Mother Jones blogs about Detroit, the new American dream

Detroit writer Toby Barlow's piece in the NYTimes about the $100 homes went around and around a number of media outlets. One reference about it came out on Mother Jones. And though it was mostly snippets of the article, it put forth some interesting ideas. More so than most of the other reposters of Barlow's article.

Excerpt:

"Detroit right now is just this vast, enormous canvas where anything imaginable can be accomplished," says the Times author, Toby Barlow. "In a way, a strange, new American dream can be found here, amid the crumbling, semi-majestic ruins of a half-century’s industrial decline." I find this fascinating. Politicians talk all the time about the ingenuity and resilience of the American people. We all know that rhetoric can feel empty at times. But as this country begins its climb out of this recession, real life examples of that fighting spirit will abound. And the places that were hit the hardest will and already are seeing them first.

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