[chs68]

"I’ve never been to Detroit. But my friend who has been there several times says it looks like East Berlin before the wall came down."

Your friend is correct.

And it's no real surprize.

Detroit has, for the past several years, been ruled by the same sort of people that ruled East Berlin before the wall came down.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Actually, it looks like downtown Benton Harbor...

(Michigan folks will understand.)