[Dan from Michigan]

Yankees are jealous that we have a culture that isn't based on massive television exposure and sports.

Jealous? We got huntin' fishin', football, and hockey. Without sports, there's nothing.

[Dan from Michigan]

BTW - At least we didn't give the country Klinton, John Edwards, Gore, LBJ, or Jimmy Carter....

[bourbon]

As a Southerner who lived for a good while in Chicago, I grew to feel a kinship with Midwestern rural-types mainly because most of the same prejudices that elitist Chicagoans had about Southerners also held true for Michiganders, Wisconsinites and Downstate Illinoisans. Talk to the average Gold Coast resident in Chicago about folks from Wisconsin and you might think he's describing a stereotypical redneck Southerner (okay, unless they mention ice-fishing or snowmobiling).