Youtube comments on this MSNBC vid
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-- Maybe the UP is/was a red wall, but we will hear out anyone who comes here bc of being one of the most ignored parts of the country. Bernie came to the UP and my alma mater NMU in 2024 and left a lasting impression that wasn't forgotten even two full years later. With the help of AES coming up in 2025 also. Stevens was by far the more comfortable candidate acc to prior electoral history up here, but | didn't see any of her lawn signs anywhere, and we ahem really don't like being mocked or impersonated ahem .
We Yoopers were a part of history last night, as it's very uncommon for someone to take the state without Wayne county. We helped AES do that. I knew the UP was moving left and anti-establishment from being sick of everyone on both sides forgetting we exist but I didn't think it was far enough left to go for someone with such an obviously Muslim name, as we're quite a bit rural up here all things considered. I am also a poll worker here in MI, and on the primary-specific stuff, I heard talk of lots of crossvotes by republicans trying to vote for a democrat in the senate race to game it so the weaker dem would face Rogers, unknowingly voiding their votes despite all the instructions all over ballots, polling places, etc. And then the whole McMorrow thing that split the Stevens vote up. Lots of factors that ended up giving my old UMich professor a win! So exciting for us up here- we're never featured in national news, and even if, generally not for good things tbh.
She did an extremely stereotypical accent of people from the Upper Peninsula, claiming that coastal elites' were making fun of her for the way she talks.
It blew back in her face because a) I have never once heard an electoralist leftist make fun of anyone's accent ever, and even the dirtbag left rarely make fun of them outside of like, the cumtown podcast, and even then it is basically non-existent to make fun of that particular accent in the coasts. I'd imagine it gets made fun of far more in the Lower Peninsula. And b) she doesn't actually talk with an Upper Peninsula accent, because, due to the ubiquity of social media, it is extremely rare to actually meet people who do have a thick UP accent! Unless you are like an off-the-grid logger, or don't use social media at all, most people around the 'North Woods' (Upper Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan) only have an accent if they are extremely old and sometimes it will come out when you are stressed if you spoke like that when you were younger. I have certain words that I pronounce with the accent due to my mother, but she hasn't had a strong accent in 2 decades.
So it's extremely easy to see that she is a panderer. And people hate panderers around here, because they know you are trying to sell them a pile of shit telling them it's gold.
It's so great that this happened right after I spent two weeks with my friend up there who also grew up in the UP. I clocked that fake shit immediately coz my friend is very much a yooper. And you are right that the accent is a lot less pronounced and lacking the accompanying dialect it sounds hilariously forced.
There were a few, most notably Hasan since he was involved with the El-Sayed campaign, making fun of her fake accent.
Are they making fun of the accent, or making fun of the fact that she has adopted the accent? There is a big distinction.
It's a fake accent that only she (pretends she) has, so both and both are justified. Yoopers don't actually sound like that, as has been noted in this thread.
Yeah, as I said earlier, it is far more common for someone from the LP to make fun of a UP accent.