[Theodore R.]

But the people of MI kept him there for quite a while and would do so again out of habit if nothing else.

[Darren McCarty]

The UP is the West Virginia of Michigan, except replace the Scots-Irish with Scandinavians, Finns, French Canadians, Chippewa, and Italians.

It's starting to move to the right, but reflexively voted democrat up until 1996 because Joe Mack and Dominic Jacobetti brought home the pork in Lansing, much like Robert Byrd does.