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Minnesota

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(52,030 posts) Thu Jan 8, 2015, 12:57 PM Jan 2015

Is it Minnesota or Minneapolis? [View all]

I have heard about how people from out of state use the term Minnesota when they mean Minneapolis.

This morning I was listening to someone reporting from shivering Atlanta and he said something: a real story about the cold engulfing the whole country really should come from Atlanta, not Minnesota. And I blurted back: hey, why are you comparing cities and states?

Oh well.. Too many vowels, I suppose.

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Is it Minnesota or Minneapolis? [View all] question everything Jan 2015 OP

In college I attended a seminar on the East Coast... trotsky Jan 2015 #1

Did he end up consulting Palin? (nt) question everything Jan 2015 #6

Probably because for some people the whole area is a wasteland The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2015 #2

Last year, after we saw the movie "Nebraska" question everything Jan 2015 #7

Except that Minnesota isn't much like Nebraska at all. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2015 #8

Honestly, I wonder if some of it has to do with the names of our pro sports teams. Brickbat Jan 2015 #3

And then they are called the Los Angeles Lakers question everything Jan 2015 #9

I went to college in Upstate NY with a lot of east coasters geardaddy Jan 2015 #4

There's also the countless people who call it "Minnieanapolis" geardaddy Jan 2015 #5

When I was a student at Cornell University, I met a guy who asked me to lunch Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2015 #10

When I lived and worked in NYC, someone asked me where I was from and glinda Jan 2015 #11

Let's remain under the radar. the_sly_pig Jan 2015 #12

A question about the question mndemsocialist Jan 2015 #13

People travel. They meet with others. Everyone is saying where s/he is from question everything Jan 2015 #14