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More Brewpubs And Museums Won’t Revive Cities Like Dallas, But Better Schools And More Cops Will

Dallasites need to focus on good schools, low crime, cheaper housing, and low taxes before culture and lifestyle.

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According to a recent viral essay in The Dallas Morning News by economics professor J.H. Cullum Clark, the great city of Dallas has joined the ranks of other declining American cities and become a donut hole. As the city itself has contracted and lost population, its suburbs and exurbs have grown and multiplied. Even though domestic and foreign migrants from outside of Dallas have arrived in large numbers, residents in the city have left the city in even greater numbers. Thus, for the first time since the Civil War, “Dallas County is likely to lose population” in the current decade.

Those in the suburbs may not think much of this is change — it mirrors the same demographic changes of most large American cities — yet Clark warns that “economic weakness in core cities tends to spread to nearby suburbs.” This can already be observed in the moribund growth of neighboring suburbs Irving and Carrollton in the last few years. Meanwhile, there is endless new residential sprawl creeping northward in exurbs like Prosper, Melissa, and Argyle, all showing that growth is happening somewhere.

Clark calls for filling in the donut hole and bringing people back to Dallas. Unfortunately, this is where his analysis falls apart. Unable, or unwilling, to criticize the main culprits of Dallas’ decline in........

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