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Been through there once myself, so i cant say much about it.

I was just pulling y'alls leg really lol. I have never been to either, but definitely would.like to.

I live in Alabama and love it here, and I lived in Louisiana from the time I was born until I turned 21 and though I didn't like the state overall there are features and culture there that I hold dear to my heart, especially LSU football. I'm not really impressed by Michigan though. I have been to Battlecreek, MI several times and everything is just really run down to me. But I'm just speaking for what I saw.

So you went to a small Midwestern town in southern part of Michigan surrounded by corn and that's what you base your opinion on? Try going up to Traverse City sometime and tell me it's not absolutely beautiful. Take a ferry over to Mackinac Island. Walk around the Sleeping Bear Dunes. It will blow your mind.

Blue water bridge. 30 minutes from me. I love Michigan, great fishing, hunting, boating, skiing, biking, hiking, great vistas, camping, etc. Great place to for vacation any season of the year.

O.K., this typifies the mentality in an earlier thread today.

Great idea. Take one or two trips, go to Battle Creek, for goodness sakes, forget about Lake Michigan, Huron, Superior. The ski resorts, the hunting the 10 thousand inland lakes, rivers, the sandy beaches, the snowmobiling the skiing in both summer and winter, the National Forrests, the fishing the beautiful boats and great sailing lakes, forget about all of that, because well, hell, you did see Battle Creek. This is brilliant.

We don't need you walking around, driving down our property values with your ugly face.

God help yall if Flint is worse then Detroit. I've been through a good portion of this country, and Detroit is by far the worst place I've ever seen. You could give me a mansion in Detroit for free, and I wouldn't live there.

Michigan has a lot of awesome spots no doubt but Detroit is the worst major city in the US. Im not even sure that can be questioned.

You don't know what we're talking about? I drove through one area that had 4 straight miles of abandoned factories on both sides of the road, and passed a couple hundred crack heads, burnt out buildings, boarded windows. Pure Michigan there.

Campbells is better and it's not even close.

Well. To that I say bullshit. I've been to every major city in this country not named Charlotte, NC. I'm from Oregon. I CHOSE Detroit.

And by your definition, Cario, IL would rank right up there with Detroit. Flint would be in the same boat. Baltimore is downright "scary" in parts. The Bronx sucks. New Orleans is the murder capital of the world. Minneopolis is the rape capital of the world(and by a factor of like 8--which begs the question--what the fuck is wrong with minnesotans?), I was mugged in Cincinnati, which also ranks as the most conservative large city--see creationist museum. It's also dangerous. Cleveland is terrible by your definitions. Saginaw is bad. Seattle leads the country in suicide. Memphis is "bad".

I digress. Your definitions of what makes a good city sucks. "Detroit" looks a lot like a lot of places. People come to Detroit and I blow their minds. I'm the best cheerleader it has. And I'm not even from here.

But then again I'm not taking them to brightmoor or anything.

Yep, you're right. Michigan is just like Alabama..

Like them, we are on the winning side of our rivalry.