LMFAO....so.... Minnesota is one of those few demographics where we ACTUALLY DO know eachother. I went K-12 with Ariel Dumas - her family has the BEST apple Orchard !!!!
Ah, Minnesota, the most Canadian of all states, with the loon as their state bird to boot. Us Canucks could not love you guys and your plethora of lakes more. Godspeed, Tim and Kam. May the good ole USA remain a decent and civilized democracy forever, and ever, amen.
Aaahhhh, Minnesota. A place where my mom and dads father and mothers along with many more are having you traitor getting all excited because of a Swedish corrupt Nazi, (same working force making our children be walked upon by Somalis and immigrants in north and Minnesota) you comment is not representative to the major folks in your state. In fact, my many friends as family barely walks into Minneapolis after 7 pm because of the strange scenario many of us in Scandinavia and Minnesota have to endure among a gang of “men in help” who each time for the past 15 years makes it harder and harder to even walk past the problem.
@@thatdouche4436 true story: Canadian geese were considered extinct, then someone discovered a small population that wintered in Rochester, MN (their power plant warmed the water of the dammed zumbro river so excess heat kept Silver Lake thawed year round). From that small population, the current terrorist of the sky were reconstituted. No Minnesota, no Canadian geese. Does that make us conservation champions, or war criminals of the highest order?
Cool. Didn’t know that. Is that stretch called the interstate formerly known as I-5 or something. 😀 I still remember when the best concerts were at 1st Ave (which I incorrectly thought he owned).
Prince never owned 1st Ave. He played there, saving the place and putting it on the map. He did own the Glam Slam clubs, one of which was in Minneapolis.
@@Kevin-wj4nk thanks for correcting me. I left MPLS in 87 for college and haven’t lived there since. I heard Billy Bragg in concert there and loved the vibe of the place. Long time ago.
I absolutely cannot wait for Walz to do the Late Night circuit. He will make people want to jump through their TVs with laughter, fun and genuine happiness !!
@@123JWJWJW He could and he would be a great sport about it, too. He’s very kind about laughing at himself too - a lot like Obama in those kinds of situations and interviews. He would have been great at Letterman’s Top Ten Lists …
Died over this. I recently went to grad school in Minnesota, and there are two sayings I learned that sum up that place pretty well to an outside (and probably an insider): 1. Minnesota - Come for the culture, stay because your car won't start! 2. Minnesotans will give you directions to anywhere but their living room.* *This is the real definition of 'Minnesota Nice' - which only us outsiders know! Even though I'm glad I left (couldn't keep up with the cold!), I also still somehow miss Minnesota every day. Someone enjoy all the delicious food at the Minnesota State Fair for me this year! The ice cream in the Dairy building is the best ice cream ever made.
The inside jokes with Chanhassen Dinner Theater and Lake Minnetonka were absolutely primo, I wish you had more Minnesotans in the audience to laugh at those! I was at home!
I lived in TN around the time when Purple Rain had come out on HBO, and my roommate would not believe me when I told him there really was a Lake Minnetonka! We'd just seen the scene where Prince "baptizes" Appolonia in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. (And yeah folks, that's where Tonka trucks came from!) What I don't understand is how ANYBODY in a NY audience understood the "ope" joke in the monologue. I never realized we said that until maybe 2 years ago when someone pointed it out to me. I'm 57! "Ope, there ya go now." I've said that my whole life without knowing it was a thing. Not often, but it really is a MN thing. I guess?
YES! I do mourn the obscurity of my insult in saying "Bless your heart" as it seems everyone & their mommas know what I mean now... so I'm looking forward to having 4/8 years to learn how to be Minnesota Nice. (Will have to binge his Soc Med posts in the meantime...Am only left with, "Oh sweetie, it's a good thing you're pretty" when having to deal with box of rocks level dumb.)
Funny, but in Minnesota that doesn’t work the same way. I don’t think there is an equivalent reality. In my experience Minnesotans are just plain nice.
I am a proud Minnesotan and a supporter of our wonderful governor, Tim Walz. My one big wish is that voters know that behind his folksiness is an extremely brilliant and astute man.
I’m really happy that Walz was chosen, but I am also really apprehensive about people knowing this much about Minnesota. We are like the best kept secret, and now we are just putting it all out there.
The climate refuge segments are more inconvenient for Minnesotans than learning more about the state in general. I'm on the Range & there's been a lot of out of state transplants who are going way over the asking price when buying houses in St Louis County - so the county has been raising property values & taxes considerably in recent years. My house value has more than tripled in the past couple years & my property taxes have multiplied even more. They are blaming the house sales for literally taxing people out of their family's multiple generation homes. When your property taxes go from a few hundred dollars to a couple thousand in 2 years, people notice! My mortgage payment doubled & I refinanced before the pandemic to get the payments lower - that was a waste of a couple grand in fees!
I agree with this! I’m a bit scared we’ll get too many people here. But we do have a lot of wide open rural space and nearly empty small towns, so maybe some of that can be developed. I just hope we do it well!
I'm from Wisconsin and can confirm this is all accurate about Minnesotans & mostly accurate about us here too. Especially about the hot dish, that's a crime.
Minnesota is the state of swedish heritage 🇸🇪 ❤️ 🇲🇾 Swedish people talk constantly about the weather and our whole culture and mindset has always been - mind your own business. So I feel like we're a part of this transformation and are rooting for blue 💙
All this Minnesota makes me miss my Grandma. She lived in Iowa all the years I knew her, but she was born in Minnesota and that never left her. So ya, I'm a Tim Walz fan, ya betcha.
Yes.... some years ago, I did the Bob Dylan tour. We stopped in Duluth, Minnesota and saw a house that Bob lived in. And then, drove to Hibbing, Minnesota and saw: the house that Bob grew up in, his old high school, the building that was used for the Jewish temple that Bob attended, and saw a big Bob Dylan display at the local library. The entire city of Hibbing has become a mecca for Bob Dylan tourism.
My son and I lived in MN for two years. Both of us agreed MN has only one shortcoming--the winter is too cold and too long. Before we left, we visited Duluth. I couldn't help crying when I left MN. It's really a wonderful place.
@@NonyaMeeSiamLOLNo. Not always fake. Most people get actual nice. Until they don't deserve it, usually because of the attitude they give. Please and Thank yous are required, along with Sir/Ma'am.
As someone from Minneapolis, I'm getting sick of all the portrayals of minnesotans as all white, folksy, and rural... Two thirds of the state lives in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, a bastion of progressive politics. We also have the largest Somali and Hmong immigrant populations of any state. A truly excellent music, art, and theatre scene that has produced many national stars, etc. etc. No one I knew growing up was like these caricatures
I'm on the Range & do actually know some people who have the accent - but I don't & for the most part, I know more people without it than with it. Plus, up here it kinda sounds more Canadian than the stereotypical Scandinavian Minnesota accent. My 100% Finnish Iron Ranger grandpa had a stronger accent than I do. I know people from Duluth with it too. Some purposely do it just to annoy people too. There's a lot of rural people who move down to the Cities after school, so there's people down there who have an accent - I know several. It's just not a blanket accent for the whole state or even a whole region of the state. Minnesota is big & has immigrants from all over the globe along with the native tribal members - our accent varies. Heck, St Louis County is bigger than 3 northeastern states, so things vary up here within the county too. I worked at the Northwest Airlines call center in Chisholm when Fargo came out - nobody believed we were in Minnesota because most of us didn't have the accent. I do cringe when I hear someone overly exaggerating it now.
Thank you for giving us better insight into your state. I’m from the SF Bay Area and we are quite a mix of all cultures and it’s a true blessing. That’s what’s best about our country!
As a Minnesotan, I have to say that Walz's hot dish looks substantially better than the one she mentioned - for the simple reason that I see evidence of savory junk food (tater tots) in his. That adds extra points. Potato chips would have been another option.
Love Minnesota & Minnesotans(lived there for a couple of decades,a long time ago).But these guys are laying it on a bit thick("Fargo").But we❤ opTIMism ! Harris Walz 2024❤💙💙💙💙💙💙
I'm not from MN but have lived here for most of the last 45 years. My first experience with hot dish was at a job. A young woman from northern Minnesota came back from visiting family. She brought a hot dish to work. Interesting flavor. "What is it?" I asked. "Moose hot dish. My uncle shot one last week." Of course he did. Because that's Minnesota.
I grew up on Lake Minnetonka. Soon as she said Crystal Bay, I was like "That's not a lake, it's part of Lake Minnetonka!" Lived in Orono for a while, too.
@@Hyde_Hill That's the nicest we can get. Without going the way of the North East style. I would add, "strange, obsessive". (coming from Walz district here in the southern part of the state)
Last year, we drove up from Houston to visit the upper Midwest and drove from Milwaukee (now part of Minnesota, according to Laura Ingraham!) to Minneapolis. We went up there to see the fall colors. It's a lovely part of the country up there!
Well.... obviously! The women are strong, the men are handsome, and ALL the children are above average! You heard it hear first, on Prairie Home Companion, broadcasting from the pristine waters of Lake Wobegon!
Minnesota is amazing, we went there in boy scouts 2 years in a row to the Charles L Sommers Canoe Base. All the way from Texas. And it's still one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to.
As a born and raised Minnesotan, it's nice to see someone actually approach the truth about MN Nice. We tout it as if it's a great thing, but it's really a hyper keen passive aggressiveness.
I mean, I feel like that's oversimplifying it. You can't just ignore the first half of "Minnesotans will give you directions anywhere but their house". We ARE nice, we just maintain an emotional distance until they've earned their way in. I'm not wasting my emotional investment on a transplant who chickens out the first time it drops below zero, for instance. We're polite and smiley, but maintain that emotional distance until you earn your way in. But once you're in, you're ALL the way in. My dad is approaching 60 and still has friends from the kindergarten he went to. Once those bonds are cemented, they're rock-solid and it takes a helluva lot to break them for good.
What I like a lot about Tim Walz is his wife, Gwen, and her work with the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated. There's an entire population of these guys floating around in America who need to be given a chance to get on their feet.... If they can get on their feet that can only be positive for everyone. I'm keeping my eye on Gwen to see if any of her ideas can be implemented, provided if the Democrats get elected!
Minnesota shows how a farming state can adopt sensible, progressive policies if politicians are willing to go out, listen to people's needs and concerns, and articulate how progressive policies help them.
Except the actual farming communities vote overwhelmingly red. The blue is the twin cities/Duluth areas. Go much further beyond those zones and people are definitely not fans of the progressive policies.
I grew up across the Red River in Fargo, North Dakota, and the accents on these 2 take me back there. However, many of the settlers in that area came from Norway with its seemingly rather depressed folks, so in general, the affect of most people tends to be less hyper and a bit more monotone. But still, I enjoyed this bit a lot.
@@jericolandry9872 I'm from Michigan and have lived in Wisconsin for 10 years. Now I have been on the East Coast for 25. I truly feel like the Midwest is Southern Canada sometimes
I am on the Iron Range - or Almost Canada 😉 - & our cable TV provider has had "the Canadian Channel" CBC since cable came here in 40+ years ago. I actually know the English parts of the Canadian Anthem - I don't speak French, so I didn't sing that part 🙃 We share more than just the international border with Canada up here - we share watersheds, rivers, forests, Lake Superior, etc.
My sister moved from Detroit to St. Paul to get her master's degree and stayed there. She has mastered the Minnesota accent and when she comes home for Christmas, that is exactly how she talks now.
Wisconsinite here. We have a Paul Bunyan in The Dells. That said, I go into Minnesota all the time. Winona is a great town, and I'll be heading up to Shakopee this weekend for Ren Fest.
@@GaryJohnstone-dx5sv That’s right, friend, and Minnesota makes significant public investments in education, infrastructure and services as a result. Don’t be fooled though, states with lower overall tax burden may have higher property taxes, sales taxes or other fees to make up for their budget shortfalls. Minnesota has low unemployment, a high concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and consistently ranks higher for quality of life here too, but I imagine all that stuff doesn’t matter to you. 🙂
@astropioneer3296 bull$hit that's gobbledygook for free stuff for illegals and people that don't want to work, Otherwise protesters wouldn't have tried to burn down your only big city ,where they all cluster! The rural ,good people of Minnesota who fund that $hit hate that governor and you lefties know it!
@@astropioneer3296nobody likes this guy except criminals,illegals, (which are criminals) and people who tried to burn your only big city down (also criminals) no arrests or convictions by the way. The abortion industry (also criminals) loves your state also. Hard working rural people hate this guy!
I recommend you try Minnesota without handguns, without automatic rifles, without multi-round magazines…but with lots of Québecois. Life just gets suddenly better.
honestly, i was taught how to make Tuna & Noodle Casserole since i was a kid in Iowa. didn't know it was also in MN, but makes sense, being right there.
I’m always like we can’t actually sound like this but then I remember in third grade when my cousin from Texas said “I can’t understand your accent and my world was shattered haha (didn’t realize I had an accent)
Grew up in the Chicago suburbs. Studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.). Moved to Minnesota to teach at a private college and still live here in retirement.
Just so people know, the overwhelming majority of us in Minnesota don't actually sound like that. Also, it's actually closer to a million lakes, but it doesn't sound as good on a license plate.
Yes! And Tim Walz carries on that same Minnesota tradition. Good guys telling it like it is for the common person. And fighting for our rights too! Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Paul Wellstone, and now our beloved Governor Walz.
I feel seen and validated by the translation of, "That's a bit different!" My Kansas family says that about almost anything I tell them. I know when they say, "That's something different," they really mean, "You are so bizarre and how'd you come from this family?"
If Trump Senior has 5 kids by 3 wives and is traveling south at 50 mph, and Trump Junior has 5 kids by one wife and is traveling west at 40 mph, how many felonies until the 2 men meet in prison?
I’m a northwestern at heart but was transplanted in Minnesota. At first I hated it but I’ll tell you, nothing makes you miss Minnesota like living in Kansas. 😂 actually got a little nostalgia watching this.
Tidbits causally reported back to MN from sister in Topeka [as if totally normal] = 'the country of Kansas' now! Far less than CA, TX & FL.. The 🤯 is still frequent! 🤣
That's right! I had every game MECC made set up to run from a Mac SE so that the kids at my school could run them from a menu! Trivia bit: When networked, Oregon trail (1995) allowed the kids to chat, trade supplies, and read each other's grave markers! Yes, I had to go in daily and "clean-up" the colorful pioneer tombstone language! 😆
The seatbelt was actually invented here in Sweden! 🇸🇪 And made free without any proprietary costs, just because the inventor wanted everyone in the world to be safe! 🙂↕️✊🤟
Minnesota probably has some of the most interesting people. Someone mentioned the border and the fact that anyone who has a felony conviction cannot cross the border. They described someone saying something about a Constitutional Amendment, which DOESN'T apply in other countries. There are worse things that can happen, especially if the felony conviction is federal. Minnesota is a border state, btw.
I won't defend the appropriateness of the old one, and really don't care one way or the other about the switch... but to suggest it's more boring than the new one is just crazy. The new one is generic. Unless you're a flag enthusiast, you'd not be able to pick it out of a lineup of flags.
@@krishadyn5211 The earlier flag was just a boring seal on boring background. This is at least a real flag. I agree with CPG's critique, it's a lot better, probably C tier as opposed to "worst in the United States)" but the earlier finalist versions were probably A-B Tier level.
Even if Harris and Walz don't take the WH, find a way to incorporate these two more...they have great comic timing, real presence in front of camera, and are lots of fun.
