Democrats were in office a mere last three years of the seventy's! How can you figure that is what caused all the decay?
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I am referring to the city governments, not the federal government. Democrats have ruled most large cities for decades. Leniency on rioters caused the stores to close or not reopen after they were looted and burnt. This was one of the final nails that caused the decay of the inner city. In the sixties., the federal government initiated the decay with urban renewal projects that destroyed old viable neighborhoods and left wreckage behind or built enormous government housing projects that eventually decayed -- Pruitt-Igoe is a textbook example, although it was started in the mid-fifties.