Yeah, I'm in Michigan. It's a from state, and for good reason. Winter from October 15th to April 15th. And the Mosquito is the state bird.
The irony is that untold numbers of migrants from the south, including members of both mine and my wife's family (all of whom were poor tenant farmers) followed the "Hillbilly Highway" to the industrial north after WWII looking for work and a better life. Now of course over the past 20-30 years, as the manufacturing jobs have dried up, folks from the north are moving south looking for jobs, lower taxes, and warmer weather.