[Neanderthal]

"I don't believe any of the three you mentioned are Swedish. Mondale is Norwegian."

I don't think he meant that these guys were Swedish, just that the Swedes and Norwegians keep electing jerks like Mondale, Dashole, Wellstone, etc., etc., etc . . . . .

[Torie]

Norwegians tend to be Republican actually. Check out the voting habits of the heavily Norwegian County of Otter Tail in Minnesota. In any event, Minnesoooota is under going a political transformation. The story is under reported, but it is nevertheless true.

[Torie]

South Dakota is not Swedish. It is WASP and German, with 8% Native American, an incredible percentage of the latter of which are alcoholic. It must be the weather or something. North Dakota is the most German state in the US, including a fair number of Volga Germans from well, the Volga region of Russia that Catherine the Great imported there from her favorite country.

[PaulKersey]

>Mondale, Wellstone

I think both Humphrey and Mondale are Norwegians. Wellstone is Jewish.(?)