Originally posted by normhead Wasn't that a Nirvana song... "Smells like Wisconsin"?
Wisconsin does not smell as badly as Montana, around Missoula. The paper pulp mill there makes the entire city reek. A weekend in Missoula is like a year in Gary, Indiana. Wisconsin has limited and localized stink only. Except around Milwaukee,where I do not go and therefore cannot comment. Minnesota also has smelly places, I am told, although I have only found one, in Cloquet---another aged paper mill. I love Wisconsin: it is the Balkan state defending Minnesota from the east.
North and South Dakota also are Balkan states protecting my Homeland on the west. Pheasants and oil tracking could easily cross the Red River if not for these two wonderful states. (Disclaimer: Ancestors homesteaded at Hetland, South Dakota and were tractored out by the cat during the Great Depression of the 1930s, not the more recent one) , with family farm bulldozed.)