[Theodore R.]

MN has many liberal Lutherans who are Democrat to the core and big boosters of abortion.

[Vigilanteman]

Sadly true. ELCA faction still dominates, overwhelmingly. Some have gone independent, joined Missouri Synod group, or other sects.

But even among ELCA faction, there are thousands of members who don't buy the poison their leadership is pushing, but cannot bring themselves to abandon the church they grew up in, their circle of friends, the hot dish lunches after church, etc. Outside of the Mormons in the Rocky Mountain states, I have never seen any church sect so cohesive as Lutherans in the upper Midwest.

[Sioux-san]

And those liberal Minnesota Lutherans are helping to populate the state with refugees from Somalia who are so frightened to be in their homeland that they need to go back there at taxpayer expense to vacation and see their families and friends... unfrickingbelievable. Stop the Refugee Resettlement NOW!

[Zathras]

Actually you are kind of wrong.
Your average Minnesotan has never even had a conversation with a Conservative.
Oh and YES, a Ted Cruz Conservative will not play well in much of the midwest.

He was Exactly their stereotype image of a conservative.

I lived in MN for over 30 years.
Reagan was very popular here until the Bush Family/GOP destroyed the image of Conservatives.