In the movie '8 Mile,' Eminem's character is a young man living in a trailer park just north of 8 Mile Road, straddling the border. We go up there and we're going to get a ticket.' I guess the year before they had the party there and the cops were waiting for them as they pulled out of the parking lot writing tickets.

'All of said: `Man, that's north of 8 Mile.

'We wanted to have the Christmas party up at the Chateau on Mound and 10 Mile,' he said, referring to a banquet hall at cross streets in suburban Warren. 'Most of the fellas I work with are black,' said Wall, who is white. Clemens but still works at an industrial auto painting shop just a few blocks south of 8 Mile Road in Detroit. Oren Wall, 71, lives far to the north in suburban Mt. They mean black, and they mean not safe,' said Nancy Ringle, 50, as she sat and waited for her songs to come up on the jukebox and her turn to come up on the pool table at the Kwicky, as typical an 8 Mile Road bar as you're going to find. 'People say 'south of 8 Mile' and everyone knows what they mean. Turn around and look north and there are Detroit's suburbs, a typical American sprawl that is more than 80 percent white and, thanks to the giant companies that still call Detroit home, much more rich than poor.

Stand on the grass in the median strip and face south and you are looking at Detroit, a city with a population that is more than 80 percent black and mostly poor - America's poster for urban decay. It means the border, or maybe the barrier. Just as Downstate is more than a geographical descriptor for Chicagoans, 8 Mile Road is more than a border line between city and suburbs.

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