which state is called god's own country
God's Own Country The phrase later found sporadic use to describe several American regions. Most known is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It was also used by the Confederate army to describe parts of Tennessee in the 1860s.[15] The phrase was also used to describe California in the 1860s,[16] and by Clement Laird Vallandigham to describe the land of the Mississippi plains.[17] None of these remain widely used to describe a region, though it is still occasionally used to describe the United States overall.[18][19]