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To: Kid Shelleen

Not sure about Woody, but Ohio and Michigan did get into an actual war in 1835.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War


10 posted on 08/27/2015 12:00:33 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s right, MI and OH are one of the few (if not the only) college rivalries that are rooted from actual war and shots being fired.


13 posted on 08/27/2015 12:58:15 PM PDT by Marko413
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Andrew Jackson thought he was screwing us in his settlement of the Toledo strip dispute but the upper peninsula proved to be exceedingly valuable many times over.

He gave the Toledo strip to Ohio in return for Ohio delivering the vote for democrats in the presidential election (Michigan was Whig territory) Ohio delivered for dems but lost the white house anyway.


15 posted on 08/27/2015 2:15:33 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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