In this Sunday’s supplement, a few hours before the presidential election in the United States, Great report shares with you the daily lives of Americans whose hearts waver between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. First, head south to America’s Forgotten Country, where residents feel left behind. In the second part, we go to Detroit, Michigan. Eleven years after its bankruptcy, the city is regaining color.
America’s Forgotten Campaign
In a few days, the Americans will arbitrate one of the most indecisive campaigns in their contemporary history. Once again, the presidential election in the United States will be decided by a few hundred thousand votes in the key states, those which swing from one camp to another from election to election.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have chosen to concentrate their travels there and to ignore another America: that of the anonymous people of the south of the country, the rural people, the medium-sized towns of Louisiana and Mississippi, whose inhabitants have the feeling to no longer exist on the government map. They are mostly conservative, sometimes progressive, often lost, and all shaken by rising prices, anxious about the future and left behind.
A great report by Vincent Souriau and Julien Boileau who speak with Jacques Allix.
Detroit: after the decline, the Renaissance
At the center of the electoral campaign, the reindustrialization of the country. Here we are in one of the key states for the November 5 vote: Michigan. Where the city of Detroit, the heroine of past American glory, has found color again.
The images of its decline have left their mark: entire neighborhoods left abandoned, rows of houses in complete decay.
11 years after going bankrupt, the city that was the cradle of the automobile industry seems to have definitively turned the page: the skyscrapers shine brightly in the city center, the once sordid avenues have given way to trendy businesses and luxury hotels.
A renaissance which has a price, that of gentrification, the arrival of wealthy populations in modest neighborhoods, which drives up real estate prices.
A major report from Anne Verdaguer who interviews Jacques Allix.
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