> Detroit already lost carmaking - manufacturing was outsourced outside the city long ago. Now all that is left are a bunch of offices. So yeah, they are at ris

> Detroit already lost carmaking - manufacturing was outsourced outside the city long ago. Now all that is left are a bunch of offices. So yeah, they are at risk, especially so because they have failed to innovate from their offices. Detroit may not be as dominant as it once was, but it is the center of the American car industry. There are many manufacturing plants for cars as well as for components, as well as major R&D facilities, etc. Also, there are the world headquarters of GM, Ford, Chrysler (now a Fiat division, but I think still hq'd in Detroit), major suppliers (which are Fortune 500 companies themselves, I believe), as well as the US headquarters of some foreign manufacturers.