Plymouth man, mother killed in outstate collision

what does OUTSTATE mean ?
is mcgregor not in minnesota or is northeastern minnesota, not in minnesota ?
plymouth is therefore southeastern mn ?

Outstate, in this context mean outside a main city area.
You're thinking out of state.

d mcclay wrote:

what does OUTSTATE mean ?
is mcgregor not in minnesota or is northeastern minnesota, not in minnesota ?
plymouth is therefore southeastern mn ?

You have hit on a peculiarity of NATIVE Twin Citians (about only HALF of us who actually live here!). When I moved here I was introduced to some odd geographical assumptions. 1st, although the TC is about 90 miles from Iowa and well over 300 miles from Manitoba, the locals don't know that they are IN southern MN. The 50 miles from Owatonna to the border are considered south, and the 300 miles north of Forest Lake are what they consider "Up North". They were never taught that Brainerd is right in the middle of the state, and that people that are really "Up North" call that area central Minnesota. Only in the TC are the terms "Out State" and "Greater Minnesota" used. Yes, everywhere else, the term "Out State" seems to mean Out Of State.. and "Greater Minnesota", that one is the oddest of them all. People outside the TC don't refer to the Cities as being "Lesser Minnesota". Even the local weather reporters (save for ch 5, mostly) get into the act, telling us that the weather will be fine here, but not so in "Southern Minnesota". A Duluth listener might take that to be (rightfully) anything south of Hincley. But Nooo, not here. She's talking about Rochester or Mankato, or most any thing in the southern 5th of our much larger that she realizes state. They don't know how stupid they sound. It would be more accurate to listen to a Bemidji weather reporter talk about the weather "Up North", referring to the storm clouds in Roseau or Warroad! I refer to this odd, local practice as the 'New York' school of geography, where anything past New Jersey is considered "Out West", believing that nothing in this country is to be desired beyond commuting distance from Manhatten.
By the way, to all of you that were born and raised elsewhere, "Minnesotans" don't play 'Duck, Duck, Gray Duck', that is peculiar to "Lesser Minnesotans". The Greater Majority of us played 'Duck, Duck, Goose' like the rest of the world!(It must have been a local TV thing). P.S. Sorry about the quotation marks, I got a little carried away.

JustTheFactsMaam

Its not about geography, its about a state of mind.

The headline should read "mother, son" or "woman, man". Why define a male as a 'man', but a female as 'mother', etc. Aggh, I detest sexism.