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The Last Real Calvinist's avatar

That article is a great throw-back, Steve; thanks.

I grew up in NW Iowa, just across the border from Minnesota, and have quite a few friends and relatives who have moved to the Twin Cities to live the frozen urban lifestyle. Most of them are/have become hard-core lefties in the Walz mode; from what I've seen so far, they're beside themselves with joy that he (and their state) have been 'honored' in this way.

My impression (as an Iowan, whom woke Minnesotans typically look down on, both geographically and culturally) is that Minnesota lefties are a special breed. They're still drawing down the social capital that had accumulated so deeply in 1973 Minnesota, i.e. they still see it as a place that just 'works better'. This imbues them with a peculiar brand of polite-but-snotty upper midwestern smugness and condescension to other, lesser residents of the region.

But on the other hand, they know deep down they're still just flyover hicks to their cultural superiors on the coasts, so they burn with a zeal for wokeness fueled by a desire for recognition and validation from NYC and Washington and San Francisco.

It's this combination of cultural confidence and radical-envy that inspires them to do completely insane things like import Somalis by the tens of thousands, and just assume they can not only 'save' them from their pathologies, but also transform them into nice, orderly soft-socialist citizens.

I haven't lived in the region for a long time, though, so it would be interesting to hear from those who are there now if these impressions ring true.

One other note: it was amusing to see John Hinderaker eat his words on the Walz nomination. As recently as last week Hinderaker was swearing up and down that Walz's chances were 'zero'. I like the way Hinderaker thinks and writes, but he's often just that quarter-beat behind the zeitgeist and its fallout.

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

“Minnesota nice” leads to AWFL passive aggressive behaviors. The entire city council of St. Paul is now woke diverse millennial birthing persons. Massive fraud is another case study of how a small, low trust group can burn and loot a high trust society.

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