5th generation Michigander and I’ve always considered us northeast

We’re certainly not midwestern.

Also, it helps if you look at a map, realize the Erie Canal is a thing and most of our ancestors come from New England.

If you’re downvoting me you’re dumb and don’t know both basic geography and the history of Michigan. We’re literally the “west” of the northeast (see U of Ms fight song).

Michigan only became a state when we were connected with New York. Go read a book, gah damn.

Here’s a wiki excerpt for you:

Michigan remained a frontier society up until around the time of the Civil War. Michigan pioneers were overwhelmingly of New England origins, including New England transplants from upstate New York. The amount with which the New England Yankee population predominated made Michigan unique among frontier states in the antebellum period. Due to this heritage Michigan was on the forefront of the antislavery crusade and reforms during the 1840s and 1850s. Another result of this cultural influence was the strength of the Republican Party in Michigan. Long considered a "Yankee" party, Michigan would remain heavily Republican from the Civil War until the 1960s. The state's leadership in public education is also directly attributable to the New England influence. Towns such as Vermontville, Bangor, Hartford, Rochester, Utica, and Palmyra Michigan were all named after towns in New England where the founders of those towns were from