Up North. We refer to it all the time, but where does it actually begin?
I m not originally from Minnesota, so I didn t grow up familiar with Up North culture. As a kid in Illinois, all of Minnesota was Up North. Of course, when you live
in Minnesota, Up North looks different. My wife s family lives in Fergus Falls; I don t consider that Up North. The furthest north I ve travelled at least as far as the state of Minnesota is Grand Marais, which I think very few would contest is
not considered Up North.
Turns out, however, that there s no clear definition of what Up North means in Minnesota or where it starts. Drawing inspiration from Reddit user umopapisdnpuaq, I shared his homemade graphic to Facebook to see what Minnesotans had to say on the matter.
Minnesota
United-states
Illinois
Fergus-falls
Minnesotans
Todd-olin
Erma-frank
Ben-halbert
Facebook
Grand-marais
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