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Lake Huron is deep within flyover country to them. The only reason they're even aware of Lake Michigan is because Chicago is on the water.

I'm continually amazed by just how terrible most people's sense of geography is out here on the west coast, particularly anything east of the Rockies. Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin might as well be the same state to them because they all occupy the same place within their smooth-brained mental maps.

I have a theory that west coasters are so convinced that they live in the best place in the US that literally nowhere else matters, so they just have no interest in learning. I'm constantly correcting coworkers where I'm from and I've worked with them for over 5 years.