The governor publicly warned that if the housing measures were not passed , " it will accelerate the recruitment of revolutionary insurrectionists . " He urged " meaningful fair housing legislation " as " the single most important step the legislature can take to avert disorder in our cities . " This time the laws passed both houses of the legislature . The '' Michigan Historical Review '' wrote that : A poll conducted by EPIC-MRA , a survey research firm , in July 2016 focused on the evolution of black – white relations since the riots . The poll surveyed 600 residents of Macomb , Oakland , and Wayne counties . The poll took place from July 14 – 19th , a time period the '' Detroit Free Press '' noted was " during the ongoing national furor over police shooting of African-American civilians , and retaliatory attacks on officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge . " § The respondents of the Detroit poll were more optimistic about race relations compared to the national averages . A national Washington Post/ABC News poll found that only 32 % of the people they polled believed race relations were good , as opposed to the 56 % and 47 % of the white and black Detroiters surveyed , respectively . This was unsurprising to Reynold Farley , a retired University of Michigan sociology professor and expert on Detroit racial demographics , " I think it 's easier for people in the Detroit area to have some familiarity with race relations than people in a state like Maine , where there 's virtually no black population at all and the information comes from seeing violent incidents on television , " he explained . In the following question , Farley 's claim was validated as the stark contrast in national vs. Detroiter perception of what the future would be like was apparent . As just 10 % of those polled by the Washington Post/ABC News believed that race relations are getting better , whereas 33 % of white and 22 % of black Detroiters thought they had improved over the past 10 years and 50 % of white and 41 % of blacks believed they would improve over the next five
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