With all the cultural talk of the old Southern states as the centre of racism in the USA it came as quite a shock that the latest spark in American race relations should have dropped in Minneapolis, the hub of a state whose citizens have long preened in the mirror of “Minnesota Nice” (as compared to the thugs from Milwaukee and Chicago for example). 🤬
People across the USA, if they know of the place at all, assume it’s a nice, quiet, cornbread place. Typical of other small, Mid-Western cities. And once upon a time they would have been right.
But in a Powerline article a month ago, John Hinderaker, writingabout Minneapolis, seemed resigned to a different reality :
When I moved to Minneapolis in 1974, it was considered a model city. Prosperous, clean, progressive, low-crime. It has been declining ever since. After four decades of…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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