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Geographically but also the character of the people here. you know, they endured. >> anthony: as you might have gathered by now, this is a working class town. and unusual in that it's a union town. a proudly union town in an otherwise very red state. >> bryant: butte is the most interesting, important town in america that nobody knows about. >> anthony: bryant mcgregor is the owner of the silver dollar saloon in what was once butte's chinatown. >> amanda: so we call ourselves "butte, america." >> anthony: amanda curtis is a former state congresswoman, was born of the labor movement. she's a un...

Glass-wegin will tell you it is not scotland. i first arrived on book tour years ago, i had been a fair number ever places in the u.k. and i was comfortable and glasgow was a whole different thing. i'm sure i cannot use this world on television they'll have to bleep it but within 30 seconds of arriving in glasgow, i called a [ bleep ], in an affectionate way. and i found that charming. they are -- it is a working class town. it is -- everyone in the town is funny. everyone is really tough. it just got a lot of heart and a lot of soul. if i was thinking of one place to shoot in scotland it was ...

Really few people expected this kind of success. ♪ >> reporter: soltry tones soft enough to sweep you away in a day dream. >> we want you to expect to come in here and not want to go to work on monday. >> reporter: mayor oliver gill pert hopes crowds get crowded away with new and big name music in miami gardens next weekend from maxwell to r. kelly, to toni braxton and wants fans to see the real main act. the potential of his young, working-class town that has already defied the odds. >> what wows me is what you can do if you're just persistent. the original mayor, the original city council ...

Bye, jeff. moving on. a city in florida may sound a lot like new orleans this weekend. miami gardens expects tens of thousands of people to attend its tenth annual jazz in the gardens festival. as julie bagd explains, it's a festival that saved the city. >> reporter: sultry tones soft enough to sweep you away in a day dream. >> we don't want you to expect to just have a little bit of fun. we want you to expect to come in and not want to go to work on monday. >> reporter: mayor oliver gilbert wants fans to see the real main act, the potential of his young working class town that has already d...

Suck blue star airlines dry before he got busted. and now they are going to try to get out of it it's a heart break. i have got detroit comedian friends like dave coule, mike binder, tim allen, they speak so highly of it. it yields a cat like kid rock it must have good stuff in it. but the dems ran it into the ground. >> bill: at one time it was a working class town as everybody knows because of the auto industry. the unions came in. and the democratic machine came. in then the drugs came. in and the drugs really wiped out the minority community, working class community, the crime went through...