After closing plants and shrinking their blue-collar work force, Detroit's troubled Big Three are cutting white-collar jobs in their hometown at an unprecedented pace — more than 15,000 in the last year, with more to come.
Ochre shot through with off-white covers the walls under a luminous sky where a white haze is about to swallow up a shrinking patch of blue.
And in Midwestern states like Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, the shrinking pool of blue-collar whites could vote even more lopsidedly against the incumbent.
It is a reflection of the Blue Jays' shrinking fan base.
To one side, shrink-wrapped in blue plastic, sits the reactor itself, an innocuous-looking package the size of a small lorry, which could power 250,000 homes.
For example, we can see from Fig. 5 that the number of patients with a single disease such as hypertension (HTN) (brown) and diabetes (DM) (dark blue) shrinks as the time approaches year 0, which means that patients start to exhibit other diseases.
Senator Lindsay Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said: "We are not losing blue states and shrinking as a party because we are not conservative enough.
The way Ben Franklin feels so purposefully predictive of the bicentennial, the way the Ozark woodcarvers in 1975 belong more to a receding artisanal American past than to the Ozarks, the ads with their shrinking cars and the slightly blue tinge of the Ektachrome film stock: the issue becomes a period piece, even though not meant to be about its period.
Among the other groups shrinking in numbers are whites, blue-collar residents and younger people.
He is a member of the Blue Dog coalition, a shrinking caucus of Democratic House members who identify themselves as fiscally conservative.
