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[–] 103 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Michigan and Ohio had a war, michigan agreed to give up its claim on Ohio if it got statehood and the upper peninsula was a consolation prize. Wisconsin became a state later and never had the upper peninsula https://volumeone.org/news/2015/08/03/252990-how-wisconsin-lost-the-upper-peninsula

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Which makes it funnier because they fought over Toledo.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    As someone who lives in the lower peninsula, I can tell you that Wisconsin hasn't conquered the U.P. for the same reason no one conquers Russia. They can just retreat into the snow and let the wolves eat you.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I thought it’s because there is nothing there that anyone wants. I always thought Wisconsin was paying them to keep it. I can think of entire US states I’d be willing to pay France to take over.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yooper here. Your example is on the money, but perhaps moreso than you know: The UP is also heavily populated by Finnish-Americans, which helps explain the cultural resilience and independence as well. The same dimensions that have kept Finland independent from Russia, keep the UP independent from others - and, holy wah, if I had a nickel every time we talked about breaking away from the trolls South of the bridge while at deer camp...

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If I were Wisconsin I’d just slowly but steadily build a line of photon cannons and pylons for an unstoppable wall of firepower to absorb the peninsula.

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  • [–] [S] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're going to require many additional minerals for that plan.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This is funny and all but for actual context very few people live there.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Is it super commercial? Or is the climate there just not ideal?

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It snows there from October to May, and there's super bad black flies and mosquitos once it thaws. Only 3% of the Michigan population live there, and they'd prefer you not interfere with that.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's a difficult place, short summers, long hard winters.

    UPers (you._purs) are an interesting lot. I'm not sure Wisconsin wants them, and they wouldn't have it anyway if Wisconsin did.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It will be a hard fought war because everyone is wearing camo by default. Large scale battles would turn into sharing recipes on the best way to smoke a trout, this years corn harvest, last years deer season and by the end of the night, everyone will have plans together for the following weekend. They would be borrowing each other's power tools within the first thirty minutes.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is there even enough people in Wisconsin to pull of an invasion if the upper Michigan peninsula? How could they when there is only like 5 actual Wisconsinites there? Especially when they're all trying to invent new cheese recipes?

    /s

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's because we are still in the preperation phase along the boarder. Soon your land will be our land. We will launch cheese and brats across the boarder striking critical barbecue pits the likes of which the world has never seen while simultaneously blocking the boarder of all you PBR supply lines. You've been warned.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    the upper peninsula is a haunted place. it’s best left alone

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago
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    No one wants that nasty tumor on that nice native man's head...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Canada didn't want it. Why would Wisconsin want it?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    What a cheesy post

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Maybe it was a special military operation?

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