"The desire for a luxury urban lifestyle is still alive and well in America."

The question is this: Is Detroit still part of America? The current urban ideal appears to be somewhere in the sun belt with shiny new high rises gleaming in the 90 degree heat, right to work laws, and crowds of "highly paid" young professionals flocking to newly opened coffee houses and sushi bars. Concurrently, Detroit's image, helped along by the national media, morphed into that of a rusty holding tank for the "other", the great unwashed, the hopeless and the hapless, dinosaurs who still expect a living wage, savages who dine on wildlife, and most of all those who are not like "us" [[U.S.)