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Old 09-04-2009, 06:30 PM
 
Location: Metro Washington DC
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Michigander!
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Old 09-05-2009, 07:24 AM
 
Location: Michigan
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How about "Mitteneers?"
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Old 09-05-2009, 05:48 PM
 
Location: Sparta, TN
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Just choose Yooper or Troll.
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Old 09-07-2009, 02:55 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX - Displaced Michigander
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We are Michigainions, NOT Michiganders!!!

A Gander is a goose, and we are not geese!
You can be whatever you want bucko, but I am aMichigander!
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Old 09-07-2009, 03:00 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX - Displaced Michigander
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Michigander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 09-08-2009, 02:15 PM
 
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We are Michigainions, NOT Michiganders!!!

A Gander is a goose, and we are not geese!
Speak for yourself.

>>HONK<<
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Old 09-08-2009, 02:43 PM
 
Location: Wallace, Idaho
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Born and raised in SW Michigan, and spent the first 32 years of my life there. I always hated the term "Michigander." Makes me sound like a waterfowl. Also, it was coined as an insult against Lewis Cass. No, thanks.

"Michiganian" sounds a lot more classy to me. Isn't this actually the official term? I could swear I read once that Lansing voted on this years ago.

It's funny how the battle never dies. I sit next to a woman at work who's also a Michigan native, and she hates "Michiganian." She thinks I'm crazy for not thinking I'm a Michigander. She even brought me a patch from one her visits home that has a little goose flying across the sun, with the words "I'm a Michi-Gander!" circling around the edge. I stuck it on display in my cubicle, even though I still proudly (and stubbornly) call myself a Michiganian.

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Old 09-13-2009, 02:46 PM
 
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Michigoose?



I remember despising the term Michigander as a kid. I first heard a talking head say "Hello, Michiganians..." around age 12 and was pleased that somebody had a better name for us. But it never really caught on, did it? (Try to type a response and see how the spell checker feels about Michigander vs Michiganian!) Over the years I've softened to Michigander. Honk!
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Old 09-13-2009, 04:51 PM
 
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On second thought, it sounds too much like something that requires a tube of Preparation M, so nevermind
I am rolling on the floor lauging hard. I thought of that as soon as I read your post. I really don't want to be referred to as a hemorrhoid.
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Old 09-13-2009, 07:27 PM
 
Location: SW Michigan
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At least you guys don't have a name like "hoosiers." What the hell's a hoosier? At least Michigander or Michiganion have your state mentioned in them. I think the term hoosier came from some drunk dude in a bar fight who lost his ear and someone there found it and asked "who's ear?" but they were drunk so it came out as "hoosier?"

I think we have it much worse than you.
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