Originally Posted by
illwill
I often wonder why Detroit is the way it is. Having never fully recovered like most other big cities. But this post explains a lot of it.
Much of Detroit's bad image isn't because of people from outside of the region but from people who are "IN" the region. For some odd reason, if you don't live in the city limits, you're not allowed to call Detroit your home. People don't behave this way in Chicagoland or the Greater New York City area. It's just not that important of an issue, although it may be true. People from the Chicago suburbs are proud of the city and openly embrace what a great city it is. Despite all of Chicago's many problems they love the city and fully claim it. They support the teams, the arts, the restaurants etc...same as in New York City. This strange topic of conversation would never take place in those cities. At least not at this level.
If a person loves Detroit enough to write music about it or even claim it, then that's a positive thing. If kid Rock wrote "dis" songs about Detroit, then you'd all be dogging the guy out too. He can't win. Detroiter's must stop being haters and embrace a "one for all and all for one" attitude about Detroit.
Detroiter's are buggin out on this one man...