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Why Isn't the Upper Peninsula Part of Wisconsin?

The Upper Peninsula accounts for nearly a third of Michigan's landmass but a mere 3% of its population.

Separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, the U.P. (also known as Yoop) shares a 200-plus-mile border with Wisconsin, whereas Michigan's two peninsulas are only connected via the Mackinac Bridge. Which has naturally given rise to a question: Why isn't the U.P. part of Wisconsin instead? The answer requires us to go back several hundred years. Members of the Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Menominee, and Ho-Chunk tribes all lived in what's now known as the Upper Peninsula as far back as 800 CE — long before the American Revolution was a glimmer in George Washington's eye.

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