The Al voters are the same people that voted for 0bama. They just happen to live in Mpls./St. Paul and Duluth. Leave the rest of us Minnesotans out of it. My apologies to FReeper stalwarts still living in the bastions of liberalism.
I had a close working business relation with a stalwart Republican who worked in Medina but lived I think in St Cloud. Alas, he passed on.
I know what you mean