Detroit always has a hand-and-glove relationship with trouble, and right now deficits, service cutbacks, scandalsand petty politics are driving people away by the thousands. General Motors Corp. has slashed profit forecasts and is taking the cleaver to its workforce. Detroit has lost half its population in the last 50 years; it's now around 900,000. Ninety-thousand people moved out of Detroit between 1995 and 2000, and 10,000-to-15,000 people have left annually since then, said Kurt Metzger, research director of Wayne State University\'s Center for Urban Studies. "Detroit used to be explained as just white flight. Now it\'s African-Americans--middle-class and upper-middle-class people with kids--leaving,\" Metzger said. \"If you\'re the mayor of Detroit, where the hell do you turn?\"