This is a good reason to live in a place that has a harsh climate for much of the year. You really have to want to live in a place like the northern Great Plains, so I imagine they don’t get too many useless misfits and professional malcontents migrating there.
You are wrong. Minnesota and Wisconsin (of which I have knowledge) are welfare magnets. Small rural midwestern towns have been attracting Section 8 housing recipients for years. We have the rising crime rates and deteriorating schools to prove it.
The government is deliberately targeting areas like North Dakota to which to move Somalis and other such desirable, highly-assimable types. A group of Somalis themselves, after first being landed in Georgia, targeted Lewiston, Maine, to move to en masse, because of the higher welfare benefits. Don’t think that in this day of tax-payer-subsidised controlled climate, that cold weather is a deterrence.