A week is not enough time to understand local culture, but an oddity I noticed from the first day there was that while Minnneapolis/St. Paul prides itself on being an orderly locus of Midwestern family values, there are an uncommon number of shambling, stumbling, ranting mental cases filling the streets. Where do they come from? What kind of care are they getting, in a society that seems willing to hand out assistance to just about everybody?