Ahhh, now it makes sense.
I’ve always seen the upper peninsula as a rabbit so that took my brain extra long to process, but I’ll now try to view it as a monster eating Wisconsin
Michigan and Ohio had a war, michigan agreed to give up its claim on Ohio if it got statehood and the upper peninsula was a consolation prize. Wisconsin became a state later and never had the upper peninsula https://volumeone.org/news/2015/08/03/252990-how-wisconsin-lost-the-upper-peninsula
As someone who lives in the lower peninsula, I can tell you that Wisconsin hasn’t conquered the U.P. for the same reason no one conquers Russia. They can just retreat into the snow and let the wolves eat you.
I thought it’s because there is nothing there that anyone wants. I always thought Wisconsin was paying them to keep it. I can think of entire US states I’d be willing to pay France to take over.
It depends. If you’re into hiking, fishing, hunting, and snow, it’s a paradise. Lots of folks from the lower peninsula go there for vacations in the summer and fall.
Yooper here. Your example is on the money, but perhaps moreso than you know: The UP is also heavily populated by Finnish-Americans, which helps explain the cultural resilience and independence as well. The same dimensions that have kept Finland independent from Russia, keep the UP independent from others - and, holy wah, if I had a nickel every time we talked about breaking away from the trolls South of the bridge while at deer camp…
Holy wah, another Yooper on Lemmy.
“This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!”
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This is funny and all but for actual context very few people live there.
All for the better. While we wait for cannabis stores to open in MN, it’s closer for most folks to drive to the UP rather than to Red Lake. Plus there’s more variety in the Ironwood stores
Is it super commercial? Or is the climate there just not ideal?
It snows there from October to May, and there’s super bad black flies and mosquitos once it thaws. Only 3% of the Michigan population live there, and they’d prefer you not interfere with that.
Californians have noticed a rural area
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It’s a difficult place, short summers, long hard winters.
UPers (you._purs) are an interesting lot. I’m not sure Wisconsin wants them, and they wouldn’t have it anyway if Wisconsin did.
Canada used to fight over it when I was a kid.
We only ever went up near there for the Pasties though, and to say we got in Superior.
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It will be a hard fought war because everyone is wearing camo by default. Large scale battles would turn into sharing recipes on the best way to smoke a trout, this years corn harvest, last years deer season and by the end of the night, everyone will have plans together for the following weekend. They would be borrowing each other’s power tools within the first thirty minutes.
🤣🤣🤣
I totally saw it unfold as I read this.
Is there even enough people in Wisconsin to pull of an invasion if the upper Michigan peninsula? How could they when there is only like 5 actual Wisconsinites there? Especially when they’re all trying to invent new cheese recipes?
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You wouldn’t want to be cut off from the cheese
It’s because we are still in the preperation phase along the boarder. Soon your land will be our land. We will launch cheese and brats across the boarder striking critical barbecue pits the likes of which the world has never seen while simultaneously blocking the boarder of all you PBR supply lines. You’ve been warned.
Please make sure somebody makes movie about it when this happens.
the upper peninsula is a haunted place. it’s best left alone
No one wants that nasty tumor on that nice native man’s head…
Canada didn’t want it. Why would Wisconsin want it?
It would be a crime against humanity to dilute the stunning natural beauty and magnificence of Yooper culture.
What a cheesy post
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