[Dan from Michigan]

flatlander?

I thought we were trolls.....:)

[an amused spectator]

Yoopers tell the downstaters that their nickname is "troll", so that the Yoopers can tell when a "foreigner" is trying to pass himself off as a Yooper. Amongst themselves, the downstaters are referred to as "flatlanders", "downstaters", or "appleknockers" (in some parts of the UP).