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I think Michigan would have the best reason to hate its primary city.
First person on the other side of the fence. People that hate Philly call Philadelphia the second detroit or whatever stupid name they can think of. The similarity arises from the fact that both cities have massive vacant lands which in turn creates an environment where people stop paying the property taxes. Detroit and Philadelphias unpaid taxes dwarf any other cities in the US with at least 96,000 parcels going unpaid amounting to nearly a half a billion dollars in Philly alone. Really I am just interested in why you think Michigan should hate Detroit and how that conflictational environment even developed? Is it race? Is it that only city slickers, ghetto people, and transplants live there? Was it the cities fault that they did not have a more diverse economy once the main economic driver left?
This actually has been covered semi-recently, or at least something close to it.
In Wisconsin, it isn't one city, it's Madison/Milwaukee. The former because of a glut of hippies/college students/perceived wasteful state government; the latter because it's supposedly a crime-ridden cesspool with people who are darker than Euro and don't say "how youse guys doin down dere, hey?"
When I lived in Texas, I noticed a lot of Texans really hated Houston. There was hate for Dallas as well, but not as much as Houston. Still, I don't think it's anywhere close to what they have in states like Illinois and New York.
Does this also include Cali and Texas, because I don't think neither one of our states have a definative "PRIMARY" city...
California doesn't have one single primary city, though LA and the LA area is by far the most populous. And it definitely gets its fair share of hate from the rest of the state. Growing up in the northern half of the state, I heard plenty about it...
The rest of Arizona hates Phoenix. When you go to Northern or Southern AZ and say you live in PHX people usually reply, "I'm sorry".
Then again, most of the nation feels that way about Phoenix.
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