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Poll: Is Michigan the True Mitten State?
Wisconsin's travel website is using a mitten image on its travel website; some Michiganians think Wisconsin should keep their hands off our mitten.
Do you think it's thumbs-up or thumbs-down to Wisconsin's use of a mitten image in its winter promotions?
According to a story on Mlive.com, the Wisconsin Department of Tourism is using the image of a slightly misshapen mitten to look like the state of Wisconsin on its winter travel site.
This has prompted some good-natured jousting between the folks in Wisconsin who think their state is shaped like a mitten, and Michiganians who know there can only be one mitten state.
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According to the Mlive story:
"Dave Lorenz, manager of public and industry relations for the state of Michigan, said the two state tourism agencies are friendly.
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“We understand their mitten envy,” he said with a chuckle, “but there is only one mitten state, only one Great Lakes state, there's only one “Winter Wonderland state — only one, and it is Michigan. Pure Michigan.”
What do you think of the mitten rivalry?
