Originally Posted by
Detroitnerd
The tension between two trends has never been more amusing.
The suburban and outstate forces, as well as our most timid marketing departments, flee from the name of Detroit, changing park names, city names and trying to rebrand the area as Southeastern Michigan [[don't exactly roll off the tongue, do it?). The Sunday paper drops "Detroit" from the masthead. Suburban communities engage in a fiction that they don't need a central city. It's comical.
Meanwhile, the international brand of Detroit is becoming more famous, more respected and more iconic.
Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...