Do you ever watch the Pawn show.
There are two of them. One from Vegas the other from Detroit .
Just watch the two of them and compare the difference in cultures.
It’s a perfect example of what dwells in the Darker portions of the country.
“Just watch the two of them and compare the difference in cultures.”
I watched the Vegas one when it first came out (I love historical stuff, and they had some interesting pieces); once they started inserting plots and story lines I lost interest. Never saw the Detroit ones, but the commercials made it look like a low-brow spin-off of the Vegas one (again, I never watched it, so I’m basing that on not much). I could imagine the contrast between the 2 places; one is an entertainment mecca that can’t have tourists molested/robbed, while the other is a dying city with the basest remnants of better days left to scratch (and steal and scam) a living however they can.
I live next to Newark NJ; the population has never recovered to the point it was at prior to the riots in the 1960s (and it never will unless they re-settle their permanent underclass elsewhere). Whole blocks have never been re-built; an absolute toilet.