Well, I am from Michigan. I know that there is a lot of often bad stigma between the two peninsulas. The UP (Upper Peninsula) is thought of as hillbillies (However, we are Yoopers). The Lower Peninsula (Downstate) is more urbanized. Downstate will refer to Michigan as a whole more often than a Yooper will. The UP has significantly less people per square mile, more deer, and wildlife. The UP is differenciated because we dont like to be combined with the cement kingdom of violence and hate. However the people from downstate dont like to be differenciated because we arent very nice to the trolls that live under the bridge and commonly refer to the UP as God's Country and we dont tend to befriend Trolls or Fibs. If OP is from Michigan, the statement may be more offensive to the culture that Op realized (especially Downstate.)

And the kids act pretty bad.

It because parents now a days are 16 yr olds.

Next she'll be thinking that the Great Lakes are a government plot because of their location around Michigan

No, that's Maine! :P

You can use both your hands for Michigan! One up right ant the other tilted above it. Easy to explain where you're headed to!

if you hold your hands up, right palm away from you, left palm towards you, you will have downstate Mi and Wisconsin.

...but you sure can excise it. :)

Not even with duct tape??

Yes you can. Unfortunately, shooting people in the face is illegal in some states (Michigan included)..

The kids weren't arguing about the "philosophies;" the derpbag mother was.

10, I think 7 meant the parents. She says assuming they aren't teachers and obviously that wouldn't refer to the kids.

It's probably a good thing they aren't teaching. "Okay class, today we will discuss the secret Illuminati nation of Michigan."

Pluto will always be a planet to me.

I'll always consider Pluto a planet.

I think it's time to strike the people. Not with intelligence or stupidity or anything, a 2x4 will work just fine.

Bipolar weather, the bane of a Michigander's existence. I'm a little surprised at how long it's been since we last had all four seasons in a day.

I live near Traverse City, got about 5" last night and it's completely gone again in 6 hours.

Definitely bipolar. It was 30 today where I live and snowing. It only lasted for 15 minutes before going back up into the 60s and being sunny!

An upper and a lower peninsula.

Never heard it, but I'm from Cali and we have NoCal and SoCal so not surprising I guess.

45, Michigan has a physical, geographical divide; California only a cultural one. (I lived many years in SoCal and traveled to MI often.)

I kinda thought that was common knowledge, even in south Texas where I live

Yes upper and lower punincula