I live in Texas but often talk about going up to Detroit to look at old buildings as we have nothing near what Detroit offers in architecture.

Unfortunately most Texans I talk to think I'm nuts and stereotype Detroit as violent, poor and perhaps not a friendly place for whites. No I don't think Texans are any more racist than other places -in fact when I lived in NYC it seemed important what your ethnicity was - here it doesn't Unfortunately large scale news events such as the Detroit Riots and Kwame have poisoned people. Not everyone cares about old buildings.