How South Bend Lost 50,000 People in 50 years

More People is a new article and podcast series by Joe Molnar that will explore the process of how South Bend, which had grown for nearly its entire 120-year existence up to 1960, began a half century of decline.


Read the series:
Introduction: How South Bend Lost 50,000 People in 50 Years
Part One: No Neighborhood in South Bend Avoided Decline
Part Two: Suburbanization, not Studebaker
Part Three: The Worst Decade in South Bend History
Part Four: Jobs Stayed in South Bend, but Employees Left
Part Five: The Great Annexation War of South Bend and Her Suburbs
Part Six: The Cost of South Bend's Decline
Part Seven: South Bend Survived