Possible Clues:

• Upset a journalist not a jot narrow-minded
• American city in ruins, abandoned and surrounded by water
• Xenophobic, perhaps
• Detached ruins scattered around US city
• Narrow-minded, almost be rude to a king
• Short, slight Arab surrounded by water
• Isolated — urinals (anag)
• Keeping to oneself, sulk endlessly amidst dreadful rain
• Endlessly abuse a Republican getting cut off
• Violent run-in, alas, with An Outcast of the Islands