Help me out here...exactly when was Minnesota anything but a bastion for liberalism?
Minnesota was far left throughout its history. The iron and copper mines produced a powerful union presence through the decades.
The weakness that can be exploited is the fact how liberal environmental policy is costing Minnisota jobs. Jobs that surrounding oil rich states are finding abundant with more conservative policies.
Our emphasis ishould be to get states to open up oil, fracking, and pipeline jobs even more with the use of public lands and deregulation, making us energy independent in the process. Success will breed success and Minnesota will follow.
You are right. I was on drugs in the 70's. Everything just seemed ok. They did have some great head shops in the cities. They even used to advertise paraphenalia on the radio.
When we went over twenty years without electing a Democrat governor. Unfortunately for us, our state party is in disarray and the weakness of Romney as a national candidate didn't help us last year. A study of Minnesota politics would reveal that the last Dem governor we had before Marx Dayton was Rudy Perpich in the 1980s. It would also reveal Republican control of both houses of the Legislature as recently as two years ago.
Glad to "help you out".