As the title says.

I know Chicago had similar issues with white flight/suburbanisation/white no-go areas, but St Louis has failed even more than that...

It's surprisingly hard to find articles explaining exactly what the fuck happened. Is it just a combination of white flight/de-industrialisation and really fucking poor governance/forward planning..? I honestly don't understand how at least the majority white parts have still continued to decline as they have...

We don't have cities like this, in this part of the world. Frankly, I don't think many cities like this exist (where population has declined more than 60%, since 1950!!), outside North America, so it's an interesting test case.

It reads like a failed state. I guess, in a sense, it is. But how the fuck has it done worse than Detroit..?