The success of San Jose has everything to do with Silicone Valley. It's obvious that the 20th century was just looking for a place to happen, and the fact that the little garage-based electronics company which is now HP Computers began in San Jose in 1939 has nothing to do with politics. Especially considering that Democrats of the time were busily segregating and repressing any minority they could. Clyde L. Fischer was the "mayor" at the time, though little is available about this person for immediate google or wiki. It appears they had a largely dysfunctional city council at the time, with no executive, at least the one article I found from the San Jose news in May of '41 still had a council without a mayor-again-not that politics actually has much to do with entrepreneurial spirit and sheer blind luck of invention. Actually, while we're on the subject of who to congratulate: Mission San Jose was founded on June 11, 1797 by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen on a site which was part of a natural highway by way of the Livermore Valley to the San Joaquin Valley. So we could credit the Catholic church. Or we could credit Pedro's donkey who happened to cut a trail through those parts in the earlier part of the 1700's. -----NO----- The situation in Detroit is a clear example of leftist mismanagement. 1990 Detroit One Million People! Now? Half a Million! Where did all these people go? Not to Silicone Valley! It is the plot of the Robocop movies coming true. Pull your head out. Never just copy and paste me another paragraph from the wikerpederas ever again. Thank YOu.