Everybody except for Sean Hannity knows where Michigan ends and Canada begins - OMG!

Fox News right wing pundit Sean Hannity must have had the same United States history teacher as his cult leader Donald Trump had, because, obviously, they are both geographically challenged.

The majority of people living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are of either Finnish, French Canadian, Cornish, Scandinavian, German, or Native American descent.

Opinion echo published in the Detroit Free Press by Brian Manzullo:

The Upper Peninsula is a lot of things: Beautiful, natural, rural, teeming with minerals, you name it. But it is most definitely and inarguably not Canada.

Unfortunately, it was labeled as such during Thursday night's "Hannity" on Fox News, when conservative talk show personality Sean Hannity was discussing Wisconsin's 2020 election recount efforts.

As Hannity talked, a map of Wisconsin aired on the screen, with surrounding states such as Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa labeled in initials on the map. But the Upper Peninsula is labeled ... "Canada."



Look, just because the Yooper dialect shows similarities to Canadians (eh?), that doesn't make the Upper Peninsula part of Canada. As we all know, the U.P. was granted to Michigan in 1836, a year before Michigan was admitted to the union, in exchange for Michigan ceding the Toledo Strip to Ohio. (Still the greatest trade of all time, by the way.)

Anyway, the reactions on social media were swift.  "Sean, check your map. You have the upper peninsula of Michigan labeled as Canada!", Tweet by S D S @Juniper1123 on November 19th.

So, we should look at the bright side: At least the Upper Peninsula was on the map at all. Both Google and "Saturday Night Live" left the U.P. off the United States last year.

TickPick notoriously left the U.P. off its map and picked a fight with Yoopers in 2017, but it eventually led to a heartwarming ending over beers, which might be one of the most Yooper (UP) stories of all time.

We leave you all with this reminder, which apparently needs to be hammered into our heads until we can't see straight:

For everyone outside the state with eyes on Michigan tonight, a few reminders: ➜ It's Michigander, not Michiganian ➜ It's pop, not soda ➜ Even though too many maps leave it off, the Upper Peninsula is still very much there!