🔗: https://l.mlive.com/7h3xvk In 1950, Michigan was basking in its reputation as an industrial powerhouse. Detroit factories – retooled to mass-produce aircraft, tanks and other war materials during World War II – helped defeat Hitler and save democracy. As American car culture took hold in the post-war boom, Detroit automakers were as critical to reshaping society as Silicon Valley became a half-century later. Much has changed in the past 75 years. | The Flint Journal