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Flint, Mich. (Flint, Mich., metropolitan statistical area) Migration (since 2000): -17,221 Total population change: -1,433 June 2008 Unemployment: 9.7% (2000 average: 6%) Annualized GDP growth: 0.4% Even Detroit has not suffered from the decline of America's automakers as much as Flint. General Motors was founded here, and as GM goes, so goes Flint. The region's Buick City, once employing tens of thousands, is now one of the nation's largest brownfields. Even as 17,000 people have left the region, employment has remained high.
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