Pretty Cool Thing on the UP in the Free Press

[Dave_B]

Not one mention of snowmobiling, however.

 

[jr37]

The Keeweenaw has a small story in TrailerLife this month also. It's a good article, just small.

 

[caged_beagle]

Also another interesting article from the Freep in the last week:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012205060541

Not that it's a new concept but it has been brought up recently, again.

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[snowdancer]

It would be nice if we could give Detroit to Canada- THAT is the city sucking the life out of Michigan tax dollars!

 

[Jonger1150]

It would be nice if we could give Detroit to Canada- THAT is the city sucking the life out of Michigan tax dollars!

The population of Detroit is disbursing nationwide, hopefully it will just take a few bulldozers to get it back on track.

 

[frnash]

From "The Freep": "51st State?" — Nothin' new 'bout that!

From "The Freep": "51st State?" — Nothin' new 'bout that!

<big>1. From Wikipedia: Superior (proposed U.S. state).
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<big>"Efforts to secede and form a new state date back to 1858, when a convention was held in Ontonagon for the purpose of forming a new state combining the upper peninsula of Michigan, northern Wisconsin, and northeast Minnesota. The new state was to be called either Superior or Ontonagon. The New York Times editorialized:</big>

<big> "Unless Congress should interpose objections, which cannot reasonably be apprehended, we see no cause why the new "State of Ontonagon" should not speedily take her place as an independent member of the union."</big>

<big>In 1897, another proposal for creating a State of Superior included areas in the Upper Peninsula along with portions of Wisconsin.</big>"

<big>2. From The Washington Post (1877-1922) - Washington, D.C.: </big><big>The State of Superior.</big>
<big>Date: Oct 3, 1897 [Excerpt]
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<big>"The latest proposition is to take that portion of Michigan which lies west of Lake Michigan, add to it a slice of Wisconsin, and convert the territory into the new State of Superior."</big>

<big>And the one I remember from my years at Michigan Tech (Houghton, MI):</big>

"<big>In 1962, an Upper Peninsula Independence Association was founded to advocate for the formation of State of Superior. A secession bill was submitted to the Michigan Legislature, and 20,000 petition signatures were collected—36,000 short of the number needed—for a ballot referendum on separation.</big>"

<big>And yet again, a decade later:</big>

<big>"Efforts continued into the mid-1970s (one bumper sticker suggested naming the 51st state "North Michigan"), with residents of the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin, each resentful of tax drains and other perceived slights from their downstate cousins, joining together to pursue the desired legislation."</big>

<big>3. From the New York Times: "</big><big>Upper Peninsula Journal; Yes, They're Yoopers, and Proud of It"</big>.<big>
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<big>By DAVID BINDER</big>
<big>Published: September 14, 1995</big>

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<big>"… there was a revival of a movement, more than a century old, to give the Upper Peninsula statehood, as the State of Superior. In 1962, a U.P. Independence Association was founded. In the early 1970's, Lower Michiganders started calling their northern cousins 'Yupes,' which quickly became 'Yoopers.' The response was to brand the southerners 'Trolls,' because they 'live below the bridge.'"</big>

<big>And more:
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<big>"Then Joe Zimmer erected a billboard proclaiming 'Governor's Mansion' next to his mobile home on Highway 28 and proposing Bruce Crossing (population 551) in Ontonagon County as 'the capital of the 51st state.'</big>

<big>[Note: (click </big><big>→</big><big>) Bruce Crossing</big><big>¹ </big><big>— The center of the universe (and my maternal grandparents' farm!) -FRN]

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<big>"… the Upper Peninsula's collective dialect, which draws on Cornish and Italian from immigrant miners, the French of Canadian trappers and the Finnish of farmers and loggers.</big>

<big>The Finnish substratum is strong in the idiom some call Yoopanese, said Stewart Kingsbury, a Northern Michigan University professor, both in phrases like 'let's go store' for 'let's go to the store' and in the substitution of 'da' for 'the.'"</big>

[<big> ¹ See also: Hunt's Guide to the Upper Peninsula, specifically Bruce Crossing (… including, in the center of the 'center of the universe', the famous Settler's Co-op, Inc. (est. 1919), still thriving today. ("Hey, wit' da cooperative store, who needs da COSTCO and da Sam's Club, and da Home Depot, eh?")</big> ]

 

[Admin]

If the UP became it's own state, I bet trail stickers could go down so we stop subsidizing the rest of the state!

-John

 

[caged_beagle]

If the UP became it's own state, I bet trail stickers could go down so we stop subsidizing the rest of the state!

-John

Or at least give the "home state" yoopers a break on the decal as WI does for their residents.........

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[dcsnomo]

If the UP became it's own state, I bet trail stickers could go down so we stop subsidizing the rest of the state!

-John

If the UP becomes its own state I'm going to move up there, stick my finger in the air, and predict weather for a living!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Admin]

If the UP becomes its own state I'm going to move up there, stick my finger in the air, and predict weather for a living!!!!!!!!!!

So THAT's how it's done!

-John