Really?
Obviously you haven't hailed a cab in Minneapolis in the recent past.
Walking is becoming a preferred mode of transportation next to taking a cab.
Regardless of the distance...
Or, are you referring to the drivers?
Around here (Wash DC area) I can't recall when in the last 25 or so years I have had anyone other than a foreign cab driver, usually Moslem, or a Christian from Ghana.
If it's the drivers, maybe what you guys ought to do is get together and demand elimination of the licensing controls on cabs that were imposed back in the days when the Socialists ran every city, town and county in the MSP/SPL region and imposed all sorts of totalitarian rules in the name of "health and safety".
If the dogs have become a problem, then rules on dogs would be in line.
Still, it's Arabs, not Islam, with a "dog" problem.