Pittsburgh Stereotypes Die Hard

For all the fawning over Pittsburgh (The Christian Science Monitor with the latest example), some myths persist:

Later, visiting Pittsburgh, another part of the U.S. industrial heartland hit hard by economic woes, Obama pitched his plan to extend health coverage to the uninsured before a raucous crowd at the AFL-CIO labor federation's convention.

Rochester, NY and Akron, OH are two other cities that might surprise the Reuters writer.