Flatlanders (also "Platlanders")
A word for People from Wisconsin commonly used by people from The U.P (Upper Peninsula of Michigan). This word comes from the fact that wisconsin is generally flat compared to the U.P.
(See Yooper)
More generally, the term "flatlander" is sometimes used to apply generally to those viewed as "outsiders" throughout the mountainous Appalachian region of the northeastern United States. In practice it is more frequently used in good-natured contempt rather than in actual hostility (though its negative connotations certainly do appear from time to time); the borough of Mansfield, Pennsylvania contains an eatery called "Frankie Flatlander's Cafe," which does brisk business despite the proprietor's joking self-advertisement as a non-native.
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