Houses along Detroit streets have become derelict abandoned buildings in what was once a thriving middle class area. There are more than 12,000 abandoned homes in the Detroit area, a byproduct of decades of layoffs at the city's auto plants and people leaving for the suburbs. (JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images)
The disappearing middle class neighborhood
Middle income people are no longer gathered in neighborhoods as they were after World War II. Midmorning's guest says the changes were especially dramatic after the 1970s.
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George Galster: Professor of Urban Affairs at Wayne State University. He's the one of the authors of a new study called "Where Did They Go? The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America."
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