What Da Heck Is A Yooper? The people that live in the Upper Peninsula or the U.P. are called "Yoopers" and are proud of it. The people that live under the bridge are called "trolls." The song "I'm a Troll Man" was written about them. Lots of trolls from down below dream about moving to da U.P., but there's no work here. So we let them come up to relax, enjoy and spend their cash, but they gotta go home afterwards.
The state of Michigan is broken up into two peninsulas - the Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula. They are connected together by the Mackinac Bridge.
(Know I know!) ...Welcome Aboard.
Your Yooper map is bit out of scale. Actually the Lower peninsula is twice the size of the Upper - not the other way around.
The Upper Peninsula contains almost one-third of the land area of Michigan but just 3% of the total population. Residents are frequently called Yoopers (derived from "U.P.-ers"), and have a strong regional identity. It includes the only counties in the United States where a plurality of residents state their ancestry as Finnish.
The Upper Peninsula IS beautiful, with over 100 waterfalls and the fabulous Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Not to mention Cornish Pasties and the wildberry jams made by a monastery on the Keneenaw Peninsula.