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As I'm sure most of you are aware I am from Minnesota. Well this weekend I went home to celebrate my grandpa's 82nd birthday. It was a great time and something happened that proved my point I made earlier in class about the fact that most Minnesotans believe they are part of the great plains. We were talking to my grand father about his childhood growing up in Iowa before moving to Minnesota at the age of 8. One of my cousins (who is from the Twin Cities) stated "So you never left the great plains then, you just moved further north." I then said to him,
"are you sure about Minnesota being on the plains." He then replied
"Yea Minnesota is a great plains state." I did not reply to him, all I did was smile and thought to myself how we Minnesotans simply want to be part of everything. We want to be a major metropolis by inventing the "upper Midwest", we want to be considered a northern state, lake country and of course part of the Great Plains.