Well, even if you take that map seriously, Point Roberts–or some part of Washington–looks farther north than Maine. And in reality, Point Roberts is not much further south than the Angle. There are only a few degrees difference.
Considering..
I’m impressed that it helped. 
-D/a
Parts of Michigan are further North than parts of Canada…but so are several other complete states - most of New England, Washington, North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota. Possibly Wisconsin, but I think the lowest part is further south than the lowest tip of Ontario. I count 9 of the contiguous states in this group. The southernmost portion of Canada dips pretty low - it’s within a reasonable distance of Ohio, as well (albeit across Lake Erie). The fact you’re thinking of is that to get from Detroit, MI, to Windsor, ON, you head south. Possibly the only border crossing to do so, though I can’t say for sure. Mostly, you’d be going north, east, or west to get from the US to Canada.
Ah, maybe the trivia question we all misremembered was: What is the Easternmost point of the US?
Maine it is.
longitudinally, it’s some place in the aleutians at 179 degrees and change.
I answered “Maine.” Looking at a map, I see the sources of my confusion:
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I rarely look at the entire US at once, and never with the intention of finding the northernmost point;
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I’ve always been aware that the border is mostly straight along the western states, heads south at the Great Lakes, heads back north afterward, and Maine sits at the top of the eastern seaboard like an afterthought. What I never realized is how little northward recovery the border makes after the lakes; all this time, I think I’ve unconsciously assumed that the border is at roughly the same latitude at Vermont as it is in the west. Instead, Vermont ends at the same latitude as New York, and Maine never even crosses the 49th parallel.
I’m from the UK so my geography of the states isn’t the best, my gut feeling said to go for Maine but I thought that might be what they expect you to put so I went for Washington.
From the foggy depths of my memory I knew that Montreal was at about 45 degrees longitude (and I just verified it now, it’s listed as 45 d 30" in Wikipedia) and that Toronto was about 43 degrees (43°42′59 in Wikipedia); the 49th parallel is rather far away from here! You have to get up to the level of Baie Comeau (49d, 13") to reach it in Québec!
And the defensive Canuck in me is laughing at your use of the term "northward recovery"…it wasn’t yours to begin with 
I can see Canada from my house!
I answered/voted North Dakota and I see I was way off!
The reason?
I was stationed on a SAC base in Minot, North Dakota and a bunch of our guys would always take off for Canada.
It didn’t take them long, so I figured it was close by.
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I went with Michigan because I thought the finger part might stick up higher than the other states. My second guess was Minnesota.
Got it. I remember some animated short about Canada defeating the USA in a small border war to make sure that little bump was part of the USA because neither of them wanting it.
I knew cause I lived there for three months.
<aol>Me too!</aol>
An interest in history helps once again with a trivia quiz. Mwah ha ha haa!
Isn’t the easternmost point in the US in Alaska? Or did I just inadvertently whoosh myself? Or misremember a common trick question? {brain starts throbbing slightly}
For those who’d like to see this on a map that shows latitude, here you are. The northernmost point (which is easy to make out on the “deceptive” map linked in post #13) is obscured by the 95° longitude line.
If you define “easternmost” as farthest east from Greenwich, then yes. If you define easternmost as farthest east from the middle of the United States (for my money, the more common-sensical definition), then no.
Where, in the Angle itself? If so I’d love to hear more!
Yeah, I answered the same way for the same reason. I knew it was somewhere around the Great Lakes though.
I’m from Minnesota and got this correct.
Maine is the US state closest to Africa.
I got it right by guessing that Maine was too easy an answer. It doesn’t hurt that current newstories are showing maps of the Great Lakes region to remind me of the odd boundaries there.
You would think that because the answer has clearly been spoiled within the tread, that Dopers would shy away from posting to the poll without double-checking first.