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What Really Makes Detroit Different

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Pete Saunders
May 02, 2012
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Every time I try to move on to something non-Detroit in my blog, something seems to pull me back.  This time, it might make some folks angry.

Whenever I’ve written about Detroit I invariably get comments from boosters of other Rust Belt cities who say that Detroit’s experience is no different from Buffalo/Cleveland/St. Louis/Pittsburgh.  And you know w…

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