My family has been in the UP over 100 years - I've never, EVER heard a single Yooper wish to be part of WI.
MANY say - 51st state, no more LP but NOT ONE has ever said "Lets join WI".
The only Wisconsin redeeming quality is PBR at 25 cents a can. The Youp’s could care less.
Based on many years in the UP and with family on both sides of the border, there is a good case for breaking off the urban, liberal southern part of Wisconsin, including Madison, Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha, and giving it to Illinois; and joining the rural, conservative northern 3/4 of Wisconsin with the UP.
It would be a large enough economy to stand on its own. If the urban Chicago folks get pissy, the new state could simply shut off their supplies of meat, dairy products, vegetables and toilet paper.
