Posted on 01/22/2022 6:09:05 AM PST by MAGA2017
I wrote an August 1973 cover story for Time magazine that praised Minnesota as “the state that works.” The cover photograph showed Gov. Wendell Anderson, dressed in a plaid flannel shirt, grinning and holding up a northern pike that he had just caught in one of Minnesota’s 12,000 lakes.
The story began with this archaic rhapsody: “It is a state where a residual American secret still seems to operate. Some of the nation’s more agreeable qualities are evident there: courtesy and fairness, honesty, a capacity for innovation, hard work, intellectual adventure and responsibility. . . . Minnesotans are remarkably civil; their crime rate is the third lowest in the nation (after Iowa and Maine).”
Almost 50 years later, I received an email from an old friend who lives in Minneapolis. He began: “Another report from the hinterland. The people of Minneapolis now share online updates of carjackings and other crimes. It would be difficult to exaggerate the extent of violent crime throughout the city. Everyone now knows someone who’s a victim. This will be a huge issue in this year’s elections.”
...What happened? Minnesota once enjoyed a high degree of social cohesion rooted in the traditions of previous waves of immigrants. But as the region has grown and become more diverse, the Twin Cities in particular developed most of the problems that bedevil much of the rest of urban America (crime, unemployment, drugs and so on). The reasons for this are complicated and widely debated. In any case, Minnesota now ranks among the worst states in the country when it comes to racial inequality.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Minnesota has been Ground Zero for a lot of Demoscat dogsqueezins, most notably their stolen electoral votes, presidential "election" after presidential "election".
This Little Mogadishu cr@p is just the latest iteration.
Outstate Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota is still much the same as always, but the Twin Cities have been nearly decimated with liberal mayors and the monopoly of news media which promotes leftist ideology. That caused many voters outstate to be asleep to the changes that leftism was making on the state, and unfortunately statewide elections still tend to go for Democrats. Dem governors and US Senators.
Outstate Minnesota is quite conservative, drifting toward the GOP and is Trump country.
They didn’t just import savages from sh*thole countries. They imported them from Muslim sh*thole countries which is a 1,000 times worse. They imported Barbarian savages who want to destroy us.
"Grabby Poppy".
Stay out da Bushes.
1. Wrong kind of immigrants imported.
2. Voting for lefty politicians who further aided the state into the crapper.
Ole and Lena were replaced by Achmed and Ilhan.
...and voter fraud.
Yes, voter fraud in their Golden Demoscat Rectangle...
They rig the statewide vote so hard that it's unbelievable.
I have a thing that I call the "Obama 2008 Vote Fraud Luminol Tool".
You can see the vote fraud in the metro areas using this tool.
I have a thing that I call the "Obama 2008 Vote Fraud Luminol Tool".
You can see the vote fraud in the metro areas using this tool.
“They’ve owned Minnesota for decades.”
You are right. Was it not MN, the only state not to send its electors for Nixon in 1972? I have visited MN several times since 1990. My expression has always been that it is primarily an overwhelmingly white population. Funny how leftists “celebrate” D.I.E., whether in MN, major leftist cities, or the south ... their homes never seem to be anywhere but in safe, police protected, primarily white neighborhoods. Leftists are experts at lying, hypocrisy and tribalism.
No way Tina Smith won re-election for Senate - but her GOP opponent was a spineless coward who didn’t do anything to fight the steal.
The article should openly admit what the author knows: Minnesota was safe and prosperous, largely due to the Scandinavian population. Scandinavians are hard working and non-violent.
Was.
Then the hordes of savages streamed in. The hard working individuals are still hard working, and it’s their work and taxes that support the rest of the people.
The politicians, having no basic moral principles, rushed to give the savages special, preferential treatment. The result is what you see now.
Obamas illegal aerial drop in the dead of night has done its job.
“What happened?”
Um.... beer? If Minnesota can’t figure it out then they must he stupid.
When we lived in Scott County, our next door neighbor lady, a state employee, hauled out her “Wellstone” yard sign every chance she got.
“ But as the region has grown and become more diverse, the Twin Cities in particular developed most of the problems that bedevil much of the rest of urban America (crime, unemployment, drugs and so on)”
Wow. It’s almost like one might have something to do with the other.
Imagine that.
L
How about the ‘higher’ education problem?
Farm labor party
HHH and the ADA etc. ??
Ummmm...wasn’t that Huck Finn.
My sister-in-law, the Minesota liberal, lived in a safe suburb but worked in the Cities. Typical Demoscat hypocrite.
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