[Darren McCarty]

Ann Arbor is about white liberals patting themselves on the back. They "help" as look as they look good doing it. Woe to anything looking ghetto or redneck.

It's got all the bad aspects of the East Coast transplanted to the Midwest, and none of the good.

[cripplecreek]

They’ve got the highest percentage of taxpayer funded jobs in the state and have the nerve to look down on the rest of us.

Jackson tries real hard to be like Ann Arbor and just can’t pull it off. They’re a blue collar town and should embrace it.

[justiceseeker93]

[Ann Arbor has] all the bad aspects of the East Coast transplanted to the Midwest, and none of the good.

Haven't been there for quite some time, but have been in contact indirectly.

You're right that it is run by white liberals, simply because the U of M is by far the largest employer and some of the students vote there as well.

But "all the bad aspects of the East Coast transplanted to the Midwest"? Not exactly. Crime rate isn't high and there are relatively few foreigners compared to the big East Coast metro areas. Also, relatively little poverty. And, maybe like the East Coast, it has a lot of cultural events for a city its size, which isn't necessarily bad.

Believe it or not, there are people still very much alive today who can recall when Ann Arbor had a Republican mayor and a Republican congressman representing the area, and that was not considered particularly strange.