Cleveland and Cincinnati are cruddy cities. (When I was in high school,MLB catcher Duke Sims,a handsome cowboy sort of chap,opined that the Cleveland broads were so ugly that the only way to differentiate them from the dudes is that the "women's" noses hadn't been broken quite as often.Then there was the Lake Cuyahogo 1970 fire on the horribly polluted body of water.)
Cincinnati,well,the KKK paraded downtown until 1979,and its proximity to Kentucky could be gleaned from its hillbilly "Briar Topper" population of Bubbas,Billy Bobs and Beckys who believe the Civil Rights Movement never occurred in their opinions of blacks and other PIOCs.