Fear of hostilities has precluded investment, pushed tribal Arabs out of fertile border areas, and led to a middle-class exodus.
A middle-class exodus to the suburbs of the 1950s and 1960s often left behind inner cities blighted by derelict properties and concentrated poverty.
And when the wealthy left town, the cartel began targeting doctors and other middle-class professionals for kidnappings, provoking a further, middle-class exodus from the city.
Many suffered economic hard times in the aftermath of the middle-class exodus from cities in the 60's and 70's.
Stories about government corruption, Mexico's middle-class exodus and drug violence have placed Corchado on the receiving end of numerous death threats that have forced him to flee the country for months at a time.
After racial disturbances in Asbury Park in 1970 and a subsequent middle-class exodus to the suburbs, tourists began traveling farther south, leaving hotels and boarding homes here empty.
The transformation is a contrast to longtime erosion in downtown Jamaica, which at one time was the city's third-largest shopping district but suffered from the citywide middle-class exodus to the suburbs of the 1950s and 1960s aggravated by crack and crime epidemics.
It's important to keep in mind that there is a huge middle-class exodus going on, and whether it's from the government or the private sector, what we need are good jobs and, especially, those that will, at the very least, let people take care of their families.
"Poverty in a Land of Plenty: Can Hartford Ever Recover?" (front page, Aug. 26) did not cite one key cause of Hartford's decline: the state has allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to expanding highways out of the city, and to other infrastructure required to support the middle-class exodus to the suburbs.
It might have been radical to champion the city 30 years ago, when crime rates were high and the middle-class exodus to the suburbs remained in full swing.
When my class studied Exodus, and its sequencing, with the confrontational songs of side one and the sunlit uplands of side two, they realised that though they all knew the cheery love tunes, none of them had heard the songs of struggle, and that applied to all Bob's catalogue.
