We’d be fine with being part of Wisconsin. At least they’d be more apt to include us on state maps.
Er… what? I gotta assume you were in the far eastern part of the UP. The vast majority is way more Wisconsiny than Michigany. Packers, pickled eggs, cheese curds. Culturally, we’re northern Wisconsin.
We live in southern MD, and most restaurants are at least half an hour away from us. The county seat is about 15 minutes away, and even there, the dining choices are pretty limited. So a half hour drive to an acceptable restaurant isn’t a big deal.
I grew up in California. I scoff at your stories of distance; we had to travel 90 min. just to get to the nearest school for athletics. I now live in South Carolina; my house is less than a mile from the border with North Carolina. Yet most of the people around me don’t even think of crossing the border to go shopping for day-to-day items. I can only imagine what it’s like living in Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations…
He’s really just joking around. There’s a ton of border fixes that would actually help.
E.g., W. OR and W. WA should be one state. E. OR and E. WA another state, probably combined with a lot of ID. ID itself is an oddity. Big divide between N. and S.
All over the place closely connected people are in different states just because there’s a river or something there. E.g., the people around Ontario OR think of themselves as basically Idahoans. The rest of OR ignores them, so why are they part of that state? Shoot, they are even in the same time zone as ID.
The UP is not at all unusual in this regard.
And, seriously, we don’t need two Dakotas. People we way too optimistic about growth back then.
Iron mountain/Kingsford
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Hell, that area is more Wisconsonian than a lot of places in Wisconsin! The Green & Gold is strong there . . .
Pinocchlihoma.
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I can buy that, they did like the packers. You are correct. But… them yoopers were the best!
I agree, Southwestern Idaho really extends (arguably) as far as Lagrande OR, Twin Falls ID is a border town between Western Idaho and Eastern Idaho. New Meadows is where Idwamt in the north begins. McCall is a bordertown for Central Idaho and Sunvalley/Hailey/Ketchum/Bellvue metroplex is international territory to be honest.
I get a kick out of Isle Royale being part of Michigan when I’m looking at it from Thunder Bay, 'cause Detroit it ain’t. The diagonal of that state is about 520 miles, da UP is culturally very different from southern Michigan, and Isle Royale has no culture – just moose, deer, some transient wolves, and seasonal tourists who ship in.
While we’re at it give Maryland the 90 miles between it’s northern border and the Mason Dixon line.
Actually it was flung a little farther west than Minnesota.
Wait, I thought the Mason-Dixon Line was the northern border of Maryland.
No mention of the northern border of Delaware being a half-circle.
Graphic designers are fond of flowing lines. It draws the eye into Pennsylvania.
When I lived within walking distance of the MD-PA border, it certainly was.
Color me confused as well. furryman, would you care to enlighten us as to which part of Maryland is somehow north of the Mason-Dixon line?
They already spent time and effort straightening that one out. Twelve Mile Circle
The borders of Delaware are easily the most ahem interesting (nice euphemism for “effed up”!) of any state. What’s fairly shocking about them is how well they are surveyed. South Carolina has much easier borders to describe, and not only did they blow the initial surveys, but they just had to RE-survey them to get them rightly wrong. 
My favorite state border: the Kentucky Bend.
I think you have to meet with official Montana geneticists to check for signs of vegetarianism in your ancestry. If there is any sign (I’m picturing the scene in the Thing where the blood is repelled by beef) then they banish you outside the state. Or at least to Missoula.
See also: Carter Lake, a weird enclave of Iowa right in the middle of Omaha, Nebraska.