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But the largest of those outsate cities is Grand Rapids, which is about as close to a conservative stronghold as a metropolitan area could be. For what it's worth, I probably shouldn't have said "west of Dearborn" either, because that city, with the largest Arab-American population in the US, voted for Bush in 2000. But that could be attributed to Lieberman as VP, and likely won't happen again.

I may have worded it a bit bluntly in my original post, but here is a little background on how many Michigan Republicans view Detroit and how racism entered the 2002 gubernatorial campaign. Detroit and it's suburbs are like a divorced couple, always sniping at eachother. It's always about race and Pappageorge - representing the Detroit suburb of Troy - knows this.

But Dog, you're only talking about the Southeast corner of Michigan; north of 8 mile and west of Dearborn, Michigan looks about as blue as Texas. Remember, we had 8 years of Engler before we got a Democratic gov. Supressing the Detroit vote would be a very effective strategy for the Republicans. But there's no doubt that it's racist. "Detroit" has long been the code word for "black" amongst Michigan Republican officials.

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