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This was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. in this one it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. then it got too rough for them. so theres little pockets of feral hippies, older black folks, a ...

That guy was steel. that guy was a doctor. this was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. in this one it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. then it got too rough for them. so theres little pock...

The people who built these structures, they were thinking big. >> they were. >> they were looking at a new rome and they built it, actually. its awesome here. ♪ ♪

That guy was a doctor. this was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. in this one it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. then it got too rough for them. so theres little pockets of feral hippies...

This was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. in this one it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. then it got too rough for them. so theres little pockets of feral hippies, older black folks, a ...

>> no, im thinking big. this is going to be fantastic. we are doing video surveillance and im doing this from the feet up! >> wow! okay. on the air. on the air. >> its like a baton. im out of here! wait! >> welcome back to "morning joe." here with us now oscar nominated actor -- >> there is no friggin class for that. >> thank you for that. >> he was nominated for a golden globe performance in his latest film which i saw. >> yeah? >> can you believe it? "american hustle." i-youre killing it, man....

People. that was rubber. that guy was steel. that guy was a doctor. this was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. in this one it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. then it got too rough for th...

This was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. in this one it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. then it got too rough for them. so theres little pockets of feral hippies, older black folks, a ...

If i were from detroit, would i be eating this with my hands or with a fork? >> probably with your hands. >> thats delicious. >> the building completely empty. >> empty. unbelievable. >> the white one is being rehabbed. theres money coming in. the one next to it on the right is completely empty. this is 140 square miles. so youre going to get tall grass. >> it is one of the most beautiful cities in america. it speaks of those industrial dreams of an endlessly glorious future. the people who buil...

That guy was a doctor. this was what made america. the road started here. the automobile. frozen peas started here. credit on a mass scale started here. >> what was this like just before this? 20 years before? >> it was insane. in this one, it was like twice as many people here. this is a consequence because all the whites went. they took their money. they took their factories. the black middle class maintained for a while. then it got too rough for them. so theres little pockets of feral hippie...