Quote Originally Posted by 313WX View Post
Heck, anyone who has family/friends in both cities [[and you'll be hard pressed to find any individual who doesn't have a relative that lives in Michigan) or regular access to the media would know there's no way to confuse both cities, unless they're just dumb or living under a rock...
He probably means people outside the Midwest. Yeah, locally, everyone knows the differences, but not in other parts of the country.

If you ask someone in California or New York, it's all the same thing. Cows and factories and urban decline, everywhere from Ohio west to the Great Plains.