Why do you say northeast when this happened in Michigan?
Becasue Michigan is in the northeastern part of the United States. Less than 500 miles from the east coast and more than 2400 miles from the west coast. You dont even get the right to say ‘western” until you cross the Mississippi. I live in middle Kansas and am only about 50 mile west of the geographic center of the country, so calling a state that is over 800 miles to the east of me a “mid-western” state would be intentionally inaccurate.