The beautiful berg of ZEELAND???
Good heavens, man----have you seen a physician about this disorder?
I was born and raised in the Mitten, and I’ve heard this “Michigander/Michiganian” debate all my life. I myself prefer “Michigan native”. 
As for immigration demographics, Tom is right, except for da Yoo Pee…ev’rybuddy from up dere come from Finland. Ya, ok, maybe a few of dem from Sweden.
Norway. I aint no stinkin’ Finlander.
Y’know, it was just in the last couple years that I figured out that Finlander wasn’t a synonym for Moron throughout the country. In the UP, Finlander jokes are ubiquitous. Everyone’s heard the one about Eino and Toivo’s icefishing trip, or whatever. But tell a Finlander joke out here in Colorado, and they just don’t get it…
We Jews like to refer to them as Michiganahs.
Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@schicktech.com
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
Michganders? Michiganians? Michiganites?
You people are dreaming!
Anyone north of the Ohio border is simply an ‘idiot’ 
<< checking with new Ohio neighbors to see if got terminology right… >>
Idiot, moron, imbecile…all are perfectly apt descriptions of those people up north.
cmk said:
This is by far the best one yet. Very to the point, I think.
Hey…did you like George Gobel’s comment?
“If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge
Oh, Athena…how moronic can the Finns be when the nouns in their language take fifteen cases? Even Latin and Russian don’t have more than six!!
For the record, I am mostly Irish.
“If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge
Oooh, you crazy Scandahoovians!
Finn, Svede, Norsk, Dansk and du all a pissin’ in yer lutefisk.
And here most of us dorky anglos thot’ you were just good lookin’ tall blondes dat unnerstan dirty movies, permafrost and herring.
From a Norwegian-intensive area: the local bar was called “Swede’s Office”.
Didn’t get the joke until a Norske explained it.
Uff da!
Still loathes lutefiske,
Veb
I don’t have a real reply here. Just wanted to be in on the discussion about the Nation’s Greatest State.
When I lived in Tennessee, when I met someone new, they always said, “Oh you must be from Michigan. I recognize your accent”.
Hey, who’s got the accent, you red-neck, sister-lover? Not me, nope. Now I godda go get me some pickled herring!