Reply #216: Same reason people hear I'm from "Kansas City" and ask me if I live on a farm... [View All]

[cbdo2007]

like in the Wizard of Oz. It literally happens on the coasts, they think we all live on farms. They probably think Kansas is really black and white just like in the Wizard of Oz too!

I know a lot of people here think there are conspiracies and that it's all based on race and whatever...but for me, being from Kansas City, what I picture when I think of "Detroit" is like the inside of an auto repair shop. Like it smells like oil and everybody looks like they've been fixing cars all day with crud all over their shirts and arms, and exhaust. This all comes from what I've heard all my life about Detroit being the Automotive capital of the country and stuff...so I equate what all I know about cars with the city itself.

Honestly I don't know anything about Detroit other than that - cars. I've traveled quite a bit too, just never there. And I have no desire to visit there due to my impression of what I described above, based on what I learned my whole life in textbooks or heard on tv about Detroit being the automotive capital.

I've never been to say...Atlanta either, but I don't know very much about Atlanta to have an impression of the place. It looked nice during the Olympics and seems like a nice place. I don't know, but it's just all based on what we hear/read and then the pictures that come to mind.

I don't know anything about the racial makeup of Detroit but it just sounds like a dirty, greasy, place that smells like exhaust fumes.