A few years ago I attended at meeting in San Francisco. I was engaged in a conversation with some local college men when one of them mentioned my being from Michigan. "Did I say I was from Michigan?" No, but you speak like my dad and all of my uncles who grew up there. I asked where they grew up. It turned out to be a town very near my home town in NE Michigan. Their school was in our athletic conference. I haven't lived in Michigan since I graduated from college (Michigan State University).