The Upper Peninsula of Michigan can't get no respect. A Michigan lawmaker has proposed a law that would require both the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan to be shown on all official publications.
According to this article in USA Today:
"Last year, some high school students from Escanaba wrote to a textbook publisher after a map in a history book appeared to exclude the U.P. from the borders of the United States. The map colored the U.P. white — like the void surrounding the country — while the rest of Michigan was shaded light blue. The map identified states by their postal codes; the U.P. was designated "IL," for Illinois — which had no label.
Other maps have shown the U.P. as part of Wisconsin or Canada."
Link to the offending map is here.
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