Goodness knows, we Europeans have a history of weirdly named conflicts (The War of Jenkins' Ear , The Defenestration of Prague etc) but what on Earth made Wisconsonites think of taking up arms (well, wrists and hands, mainly) against the Michiganders in the War of the Mittens?
The thing is, we're still a bit a like anxious parents. We still care about how you guys are growing up and managing on your own, even more than a couple of hundred years after you left 'home'. When we hear you're still getting in to scrapes with the next-door neighbours, (sorry, make that 'neighbors') we worry about you. We thought that little cheese making thing you had would keep you occupied. But now you're stealing next-door's clothes.
I don't care who started it - for goodness' sake, behave yourselves and play nice!

Ken

Ken,

I wasn't aware of the conflict until your post.

Once the feud escalates to other articles of clothing, especially if it's the spring line of Victoria's Secret, then I will pay attention.....

Oh, now that is an image I'm trying to erase from my mind!
You, with just your latest VS selection and a pair of mittens.
I wish I'd never started this.

I realize this is an old thread, but as I live between Wisconsin and Michigan, it is in my best interest to be aware of current warfare. Is the original poster possibly referring to Mitt "Mittens" Romney? Those Republicans are waging war on lots of different groups, after all.

Hi Polly

No, it was nothing to do with The Mitt.

At the end of last year I had spotted a news article saying that Wisconsin Department of Tourism had decided to adopt a mitten as their emblem to promote winter tourism. Of course, this appeared to have enraged some neighbors who felt the mitten was their symbol. (Well, maybe people in Michigan never get so excited about anything as to feel actual 'rage'; let's say they were 'dissatisfied').
Of course the WDoT website has already moved on to summer tourism so the prominent use of mittens and mitten-like images has declined somewhat. But just Google 'wisconsin mitten state' and you'll find lots of reports and reaction about the original story.

But how can it be that I keep an eye on all your detailed activities from over the other side of the Atlantic and you guys don't even know about civil conflagrations breaking out under your noses? I got the impression that this was a major state v. state uprising and the National Guard were about to be called in to settle the dispute? Come on, it was on the Internet, it must have been true!

Regards

Ken

Hi Ken,

Those whacky cheese heads! Thanks for the explanation.

You'd almost think the whole thing had just been a cheap publicity stunt!
Oh, wait ...