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re: Minnesota- what went wrong?
Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:55 am to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:55 am to GreatLakesTiger24
It’s objectively a safer and better place to live by almost any metric. But it’s WOKE so here we are.
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Posted on 1/10/26 at 9:58 am to RandySavage
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my image of Minnesota it would have been a state full of beer drinking John Candy look alikes that just wanted to stay warm, eat well, ice fish, help their neighbors, and enjoy life. Salt of the earth kind of people.
Outside of Minneapolis it is like this, in my experience.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:07 am to RandySavage
Minnesota & Wisconsin have had this dalliance with political non-conformity for over 100 years.
The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful third party in the 20th Century as far as electing State officials and US Legislators. (VP HH Humphrey was initially a product of it).
The second-most successful State third party was Wisconsin’s Progressive Party. Robert La Follette Jr. was the most memorable member of that movement.
Both of these third parties really took off because of the Great Depression. The Wisky one ended up merging with the Republican Party and the Democratic Party was the eventual beneficiary of the Minnesota version.
The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful third party in the 20th Century as far as electing State officials and US Legislators. (VP HH Humphrey was initially a product of it).
The second-most successful State third party was Wisconsin’s Progressive Party. Robert La Follette Jr. was the most memorable member of that movement.
Both of these third parties really took off because of the Great Depression. The Wisky one ended up merging with the Republican Party and the Democratic Party was the eventual beneficiary of the Minnesota version.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:10 am to RandySavage
In the middle 1990's, a guy I worked with who was from there called it "The People's Republic of Minnesota".
My guess is that people like him left, and then a whole bunch of foreigners were added to the people who stayed.
My guess is that people like him left, and then a whole bunch of foreigners were added to the people who stayed.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:19 am to awestruck
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What law?
There’s none from the top down. And THE SUPREME COURT has failed to ensure we the people get our right to a speedy trial by bending the knee to that corrupt batard with the still stolen top secrets. The one’s he publicly played musical chairs with. And there’s still that issue of being an on the loose pedophile.
He claimed bullshi… and the legal system went to bomb ffricked Egypt for hiding…. John Robert’s and Aileen Cannon both need to be removed for gross negligence in failing to grant 348 million peoples right to a speedy (and fair) trial…. The founders, the ones that MAGA pretend to be, they would have solved this by months end, one way or the other.
Wow! Calm down over there. You may burst a vein.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:20 am to RandySavage
Greed with zero gov't oversight.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:22 am to RandySavage
Several things. It’s been full of leftists for decades. Justice Douglas (probably the most liberal justice in Supreme Court history) was from there.
Harry Blackmun (who authored Roe v wade) was from there.
Until the Somalis arrived, it was a bunch of old white people who cared about nothing but Medicare and social security checks.
Also, places like Duluth were full of unionized workers who loved to vote for socialists.
Harry Blackmun (who authored Roe v wade) was from there.
Until the Somalis arrived, it was a bunch of old white people who cared about nothing but Medicare and social security checks.
Also, places like Duluth were full of unionized workers who loved to vote for socialists.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 10:24 am
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:23 am to UtahCajun
Nawh, I’m good.
Just fed up with everything from both parties and all the bought-n-paid for assholes in Washington DC.
Just fed up with everything from both parties and all the bought-n-paid for assholes in Washington DC.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:25 am to awestruck
The Twin City area is a shite show. The rest of the state is pretty normal.
Same for Illinois/Chicago.
Same for Illinois/Chicago.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:26 am to RandySavage
The Somalis and white guilt
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:29 am to RandySavage
Alcohol, ssris, cold weather, overweight women, winters are awful. Darker days that are long.
Terrible food, no seasoning
Not good athletes so their college teams suck
These people are unhappy and on drugs. These combined make them feel like everything’s “just alright”.
Terrible food, no seasoning
Not good athletes so their college teams suck
These people are unhappy and on drugs. These combined make them feel like everything’s “just alright”.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 10:32 am
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:30 am to RandySavage
Damn, I wish there was a poli hoard for this kinda crap.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:35 am to RandySavage
I remember in the late 90s Chris Rock was joking about Minnesota and he said "there is two black people in Minnesota. Prince and Kirby Pucket". He couldn't make that joke today.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:37 am to RandySavage
I lived there 10 years ago...it was very very leftwing. The difference was that it was still culturally Christian in the suburbs and this moderate conservativism balanced the metro and the state in general as the metro dominates the state when it comes to politics.
The far left core of MSP consist of secular progressives who are mostly a byproduct of the university culture. The U of M is in Minneapolis, they have a tons of universities in the metro and they have long had high populations of immigrants being settled en masse by the state department going way back, to the 1970s, due to their being a lot of social services there. Over time this network of nonprofits, university grads and enclaves of immigrants who were not assimilating melded into a coalition that became increasingly further and further leftwing. To the point, moderate liberals did not really feel at home and moved out to the suburbs. Once they turned blue, starting around 2012 but rally flipping hard in 2018 the place was destined to become what it is now, a far left machine powered on white guilt, hate and privilege.
The far left core of MSP consist of secular progressives who are mostly a byproduct of the university culture. The U of M is in Minneapolis, they have a tons of universities in the metro and they have long had high populations of immigrants being settled en masse by the state department going way back, to the 1970s, due to their being a lot of social services there. Over time this network of nonprofits, university grads and enclaves of immigrants who were not assimilating melded into a coalition that became increasingly further and further leftwing. To the point, moderate liberals did not really feel at home and moved out to the suburbs. Once they turned blue, starting around 2012 but rally flipping hard in 2018 the place was destined to become what it is now, a far left machine powered on white guilt, hate and privilege.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 10:38 am
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:40 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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it's less of a cesspool than la/ms/al
Keep telling yourself that, even as the rest of the country watches a very different story come out of that shithole.
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:43 am to TulsaSooner78
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Hubert Humphrey
Received his MA from LSU.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 10:45 am
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:44 am to RandySavage
Its full of Scandinavians and other northern Europeans who are very liberal. Look how inviting places like Sweden are to refugees. What's ironic is that I've always heard that most of those people are fairly cold socially and are the type to ask you to leave if you're at their house when it's time for dinner.
This post was edited on 1/10/26 at 10:51 am
Posted on 1/10/26 at 10:48 am to awestruck
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What law?
Are you talking/commenting to me?
Posted on 1/10/26 at 11:13 am to RandySavage
Self hating weak minded white liberal pieces of shite.
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Posted on 1/10/26 at 11:29 am to Dixie2023
quote:people act much, much worse
Apparently, it is not. We don’t act like that here in Louisiana.
Louisiana Minnesota
Violent Crime Rate (per 100k) ~520+ ~284+
Property Crime Rate (per 100k) ~2,296+ Lower than LA
Gun Death Rate (per 100k) 28.2 9.6
Poverty Rate 18.9% 9.3%
Median Household Income $58,229 $85,086
Per Capita Income $34,102 $46,530
Bachelor’s Degree or Higher ~17–19% ~26%
Less than High School ~11–12% ~5%
Children in Single-Parent Households ~43% ~24%
Unemployment ~5% ~3%
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