[amtrak-official]

[asquared-ohgodnotthehorrors]

What happened in 1980?

[amtrak-official]

The cause of literally everything of course, Suburbanisation, urban renewal and the decline of American Industry in the 70s

[sillimancer]

ALT

[amtrak-official]

While he did ruin so many things, the drop we are looking at was before his election as it took place between 1970 and 1980 and therefore he wasn't a direct cause in the population decline of Philadelphia, Nixon on the other hand...

[amtrak-official]

Here is the metro area population over time for comparison, where Philadelphia grew by about 200,000 people, so my theory is that a lot of the decline came from the growth of the suburbs

[femininefreyanyctophile]

I'm sstill gonna blame raegan >:)

[amtrak-official]

He is responsible for so many problems but seriously the decline of Philadelphia in the 1970s is not one of them, he was off being a racist in California and complaining about Jimmy Carter at that time