In all fairness you have MN/STP University’s deciding the fate. They graduate and leave, its not well there.
add to it, you have a large influx of foreign immigrants the last 20-30 years. Minnesota has never shyed from opening its doors to others.
this would all be a mute point if the same guy who headed up the UN oil-for-food investigation in the senate had had enough sense to support drilling ANWR. How many votes was that worth?