Many residents of Detroit are employed by automobile manufacturers. When those companies almost dissolved in the financial crisis of the 2000s, residents' interest in the political treatment of automobile manufacturers may have gone from ________ to ________.

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The financial crisis of the 2000s threatened the dissolution of automobile manufacturers, which likely heightened Detroit residents' concern and interest in how these companies were treated politically, moving from a potentially dormant (latent) state to a more visible and engaged (active) state.

Many Residents of Detroit Are Employed by Automobile Manufacturers