Ya sure ewe betcha. Shuda taken just a few years fer most foreigners. Yup. Welcome. Come over for some hotdish and it's official!

"Northlander" is a media term, rarely, if ever, used by Duluthians.

But what word to describe it's official would she used if it wasn't "Northlander"?

Well, I moved south when I moved here, so I always thought "Northland" was curious term.

Iowa is known as the "Heartland."

There's North of 2, and there's everywhere else.

The "Northland"...for newscasters and carlots, apparently.

I tend to use it more when I write than speak, though. You betcha.

Some crappy little burg in the cities voted to make 'Minnesotan' their official language last night.

A friend of mine, who lived here and graduated from here, moved to centeral Illinois near Peoria and when I would go to visit him, his friends who were from that area asked me "Where are you from?"  "about 20 minutes from Duluth"  "Ohh, do you like living in Canada?" WTF?!?!  These were 20-something people, one of whom I was fairly sure had even went to college!

It's not just TV. Headline writers are not going to let "Northland" die, either. Although I think you're less likely to see "Northlander" in a newspaper than you are to hear it on TV.

Here's what's funny about "northlander":

After I posted, I thought, "crap, that's not right at all."  But I figured it was disingenuous to edit, considering the topic.

Guess you can take the girl out of sconnie, but you can't take the sconnie out of the girl. Maybe I'm just a successful hybrid. Transplant?  Graft?

I'm not a big fan of the term 'northlander', but Minnesotan doesn't work so well either. In my experience, people from southern MN don't embrace the culture. The accent and vocabulary is more of a northern thing, anyways.