History UsefulNotes / Detroit

* ''Delray'': Originally a Hungarian neighborhood, it fell on hard times in TheSeventies and has never recovered since. The fact that numerous industrial buildings are in the area (including the Ford River Rouge Complex and Zug Island) and that a decent chunk of the neighborhood was recently wiped out to make room for a second bridge to Canada doesn't help matters much.

It is geographically notable for a few reasons. Despite being separated from Windsor, Ontario by the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair, it features the busiest U.S.-UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} border crossing--the Ambassador Bridge. It is also the only place in the contiguous 48 States where Canada is ''south'' of the U.S., since Windsor juts out to the west just so.[[note]]As a result, a "[[Music/JourneyBand city boy born and raised in South Detroit]]" is actually a native Canadian.[[/note]] Detroit itself is surrounded by smaller independent municipalities, which form the Metro Detroit area. With both a Spanish Creator/{{Univision}} station in Detroit[[note]]said station now serves as an affiliate of religious broadcaster Daystar[[/note]] and (until it was shut down in 2012) a Creator/{{CBC}} tower in Windsor rebroadcasting the main Francophone feed from [[UsefulNotes/{{Montreal}} Montréal]], it was for many years the only area in North America where you could watch free-to-air TV in three languages.[[note]]Providence, Rhode Island now has English, Spanish, and Portuguese stations, and UsefulNotes/LosAngeles has English, Spanish and Japanese language stations.[[/note]]

* ''Film/TheCrow''

The Metro Detroit area is home to a myriad cultures and ethnicities, including one of the largest Arab populations in North America, centered in Dearborn (with a sizable UsefulNotes/{{Leban|on}}ese outpost in West Bloomfield -- where they get along rather interestingly with the large Jewish population - and the world's biggest Iraqi Catholic population outside UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}, centered in the northeast exurbs of Utica and Shelby Township, where they get along rather interestingly with the existing predominance of Albanians and Macedonians), as well as sizable UsefulNotes/{{Mexic|o}}an populations across much of the city's southwest side as well as in the suburbs of Lincoln Park and Pontiac. It is also very economically and racially-segregated, with poorer minorities living in the city, the white working-class in the eastern suburbs and the Downriver area[[note]]Allen Park, Brownstown Township, Ecorse, Flat Rock, Gibraltar, Grosse Ile Township, Huron Township, Lincoln Park, Melvindale, River Rouge, Riverview, Rockwood, Romulus, Southgate, Taylor, Trenton, Woodhaven, and Wyandotte[[/note]] next door to the city to the southwest, and the predominantly white and Asian American upper-middle-class in the northwestern suburbs/exurbs and the Grosse Pointes[[note]]City, Park, Farms, Woods, Shores, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Harper Woods]][[/note]] just east of the city proper. The Metro Detroit area is [[UrbanSegregation one of the most racially segregated in the nation]].

The Detroit area is the center of America's automotive industry. Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis North America (better known as Chrysler) have headquarters there and it is known as the "Motor City" for this very reason.[[note]]Ford and Chrysler's headquarters are actually located in nearby Dearborn and Auburn Hills, respectively, and while General Motors maintains a large plant and its corporate headquarters within the city, its main research and development campus is in neighboring Warren.[[/note]] Its most recognizable structure is the Renaissance Center, a cluster of late-'70s-era skyscrapers that serve as GM's headquarters. The Center notably clashes with the rest of the city's skyline, built much earlier in the century; at the time it was built, it stood as a promise for a bright future for the city, and it now serves as a visible reminder of the region's stagnation. UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}-based Delta Airlines also operates its second-largest hub at Detroit Metropolitan-Wayne County Airport (DTW). The hub was inherited via a merger with Northwest Airlines and serves as the largest in their Midwest network [[note]]Before the merger, Cincinnati (CVG) was their main Midwest hub but Delta re-focused to DTW. CVG was officially dropped as a hub for Delta during the COVID-19 pandemic.[[/note]] as well as being their main transpacific base.