[GodfearingTexan]

this is going to sound a little funny, but for the past several months or perhaps the past year, i have noticed an uncanny number of people traveling n-s on I-35 with minnesota plates. the majority are white, but a fair number are hispanic. i dont typically see a lot of kansas plates, or nebraska plates, or iowa plates, or plates from the dakotas. but i do see A LOT of plates from minnesota. i have often thought that perhaps it was drug related, as i see no other possible explanation for so many minnesotans to be traveling this way. then i see this story...

[PLK]

Just returned from a week "Up North" in Minnesota on vacation. Traveled through the Twin Cities both up and back. Our whole family noticed the HUGE increase in the number of Mexican restaurants and people who appeared to be of Hispanic origin in and around the parts of the state we drove through, even as far north as Leech Lake area.

What brings them all that way from Mexico? Meat packing? Mining operations? No one seemed to know.

[stephenjohnbanker]

You nailed it!