What’s the Matter With Minnesota?

Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud?
To understand what’s going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic culture. Minnesota was settled largely by people of Scandinavian and German ancestry.
In survey after survey, Minnesota has ranked No. 1 or No. 2 among states, often just behind neighboring and much smaller North Dakota, in social connectedness, civic participation, workforce participation and voter turnout. It has traditionally led the nation in levels of trust and conscientiousness.
This has been coupled with political behavior that resembles…
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