Still, Minnesota is arguably trending far less social democratic as the Scandinvian culutral heritage is undermined by assimilation. In other areas of the Great Lakes states what I see most strongly is that with deindustrialization large parts of the working class have been taken up by the idea that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties.  And when debate is suppressed it only serves to validate that view.


And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg