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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.
Most Michganders (those who live in then lower Penninsula or ✋ Mitten part) do not have a heavy accent. Those who live in the Upper Pennisua (da UP or Yoo Pee / Yooper) do have a distinct accent and their own slang formed around local slang and slapstick humor terms that most Michganders know and recognize. Think Canadian Yokel or the how the opening credits from Holy Grail would sound spoken out loud. It was settled by a lot of Finnish with a mix of French. They exaggerate ooh and aaah. Hard T's become D's. The is Da. Eh? Ya know? Oh yaaa. Is a common expression.
The best example is Da Yoopers - a comedy polka band around Yooper culture and way of life (beer, hunting, winter, relationships, more beer)
She comes off like a metropolitan forced Minnesotan with cotton balls in her mouth and none of the Yooper language or phrases. Minnesotan accent is like the ooo and aaa without the ooooh and aaahh and waaa. Harsher. She lacks dialect that is distinct to the UP. Lower Peninsula people (called trolls as trolls live under the bridge in lore referencing the Mackinac Bridge connecting the two pennisulas) do not typically use Yooper slang. Sounds like she's forcing it with her jaw and not naturally like in the back of the throat. She is from Rochester Hills, very upper class district north of Detroit.
Most Lower Peninsula people sound closer to those from Chicago.
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