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I knew there was a West Virginia, but I did not know there was a West Michigan!

• outside1234 14y ago
  cultural insight: west michigan is what west michiganders call themselves to distance themselves from Detroit.
  • 54mf 14y ago
    Bingo. I'm originally from Northern Michigan - technically Northern Lower Michigan, to distance ourselves from the crazy backwoods folk in the UP, and from the run-down big city craziness of Detroit and Lansing.
    • gvb 14y ago
      ...and yoopers call us trolls because we live "under the bridge."
  • ahi 14y ago
    To be fair, other Michiganders call it West Michigan to distance themselves from West Michigan as well.
    • kaonashi 14y ago
      Hey, you have a problem with the VanDerVosses?
  • liamgriffiths 14y ago
    i don't think that distance is the right word there, more like differentiate. michigan is a big diverse state. i think it is more so geographic shorthand
• warech 14y ago
  See: Northern California(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_California), South Jersey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Jersey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Jersey), etc.