The History Channel has a program called "The States," where they talk about each US state. I haven't watched it before now, and it just happened to be starting with Michigan.

It wasn't suprising, really. Michigan is shaped like a mitten and consists soley of the city of Detroit. Oh, and it abounds with natural resources, but let's talk about cars. They didn't even mention the U.P. when they talked about logging, though they did show Tahq falls and a couple other scenes I'm pretty certain were shot in the U.P. Sometimes I feel like a Who.

They interviewed James Earl Jones, who is a Michigander (specifically, from Below the Bridge). When speaking of Michigan's natural treasures, he says "The Song of Hiawatha is all about living along 'Gitchee Gumee': Lake Michigan." Gitchee Gumee is Lake Superior :rolleyes:

I guess Yoopers are still the only ones saying YA to da U.P., eh?

It's not unique to Michigan, of course. New York is NYC, and California is LA and SF.