Posted on 12/22/2016 7:44:41 AM PST by Kaslin
The cold tundra of Minnesota was a foreboding land to early settlers. French fur traders came to the bountiful lakes of the Northern Territory in search of hides and pelts. German and Norwegian farmers came for some of the richest farmland in the world. Flour mills in Minneapolis hired Irish and Polish workers and iron ore mines on the great Mesabi Range brought in Swedish and Eastern European immigrants. Today, many immigrants come from Mexico and Central America. They work in restaurants, at summer farms, and on roofing and construction sites. Programmers from India and Asia work in the many high-tech jobs the Twin Cities provide. Except for the proud Native American tribes, some of whom have become very wealthy from casino gambling revenues, all citizens of Minnesota are or were descendants of immigrants.
And, as you may have heard, Minnesota has the largest Somali population outside of Africa. Like many immigrants, no doubt, most came for new opportunity and jobs. Many also have come for some of the most generous welfare benefits in the nation. Aided by many charities, notably Lutheran Social Services, Catholic Charities, and American Refugee Committee, Somali immigrants have transformed the face of Minnesota, not only in major cities like Minneapolis and St. Paul but in many outstate mid-size cities such as St. Cloud and Wilmar.
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They found Minnesota! (((Yea!)))
Yes to cats, no to hairballs.
Tell that to the cats.
That’s what Merkle said, too. lol
Ali Sina, ex Muslim and founder of Faith International.
The only way to prevent jihad is to send them all back to the hell holes they came from.
This is the second time he bitched about American Thinker
I am a naturalized citizen since June 12, 1977
No, but quit bitching about the publisher and concentrate instead on the subjects of the article. Which are Minnesota, Immigration and Jihad
The largest demographic plurality of Americans, still to this day, are those with German ancestry.
Other than that, carry on, Bruder.
Estimates have varied widely, since so many native people succumbed to Eastern Hemisphere diseases such as influenza, bubonic plague and pneumonic plagues almost upon first contact with Europeans. However, at this point most scholars have gravitated to a middle estimate of around 50 million people here at the end of the 15th century, before Columbus.
Even after their populations were devastated by the new diseases, there were enough left to make every new settler group aware of their presence and their prior claims on the land.
LOL!
Yes Dear, and I’m descended from all of them.
Anabaptist Germans in North Carolina, Scots-Irish in Virginia, French Huegenots who started in Staten Island in 1680 and ended up in the Carolinas 50 years later and of course Anglo-Saxons from York who also landed about 1680.
And of course the requisite Cherokee Indian woman to round out the genetics.
But the reason we speak English is that the overwhelming majority of those 3.8 million-ish people in the Colonies around 1780 were British - who of course do include those ethnicities, and more importantly lived under a set of rules that they were all familiar with: English Common Law and the English declarations such as Magna Carta which declared the Rights of Englishmen.
It is this group and their laws that formed the American nation.
Jihad is the minor problem.
Sharia is the major problem.
How do you say no to both problems?
That’s easy.
As if Minnesota was still in the process of being settled and needed new faces.
The idiot who wrote this seems to think we're still in the 18th century exploring new lands. Unfortunately Minnesota - like the rest of the U.S. - was settled long ago and not by primitives who were transported here on jet aircraft.
They aren't "immigrants" or "settlers", just parasites who plan to destroy the host population.
From this daughter of the Rhineland Palatinate.
Then we must be relatives, because that's precisely where my German ancestors came from.
American “Thinker” is a globalist propaganda machine.
I really didn’t give a shit how I spelled it, but thanks for policing my spelling.
I really didn’t give a shit how I spelled it, but thanks for policing my spelling.
Calm down. Why are you stuttering?
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