Is Michigan a brand?

[poobert]

It's dysfunctional boardering on schizophrenic. You're from Detroit, yet you're not!

However if Detroit had as many residents as they had people who actually said they're from "Detroit" the coffers would be overflowing, the city would be repopulated, and most of the current problems would virtually disappear. Alas, Detroit has far too many boosters and not enough residents.

I resent those who claim they're "from Detroit" when they're out of town. It's inaccurate. I don't see what is so hard about saying "Metro Detroit" or "the suburbs of Detroit" or "just outside Detroit". It's called being a poseur. Yet these are the first people who, when back home, will jump and scream about how different Warren is from Detroit and how they would never actually live in Detroit [[despite paradoxically claiming to be from there), as we have seen from recent threads.

I ran into some dumpy tourist on a plane who said she was "from Detroit" and she talked about how bad things are there. Upon futher investigation, she was from Waterford, which, in relation to Detroit, may as well be Mars. Of course she's qualified to talk to people about how mean our streets are. Now if she had just told me she was from Waterford in the first place she could have saved me the trouble and I would have known to ignore her right away.