Living as we do in the Twin Cities, we struggle to see what is in front of our nose. Mark Steyn looks on from a distance and observes in his column “Minnesotacide” (links omitted)(also posted here at Jewish World Review):
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The Lutheran church is the largest denomination in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, so, when Scandinavians emigrated to Minnesota, the applicable confessional adjective was an easy shorthand. In the 1940 US Census, Minnesota’s most popular “mother tongues” (apologies to you trans types), after English, were German, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish. Eight decades later, they were Spanish, Hmong and Somali. That’s to say, in the span of one human lifetime (to ignore for the moment America’s declining life expectancy), Minnesota replaced Scandinavians with Somalis.
No prudent society would do such a thing. As we have had cause to note, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are among the Top Ten least corrupt nations on earth while Somalia is second only to South Sudan as the most corrupt. But that’s not really a useful Hit Parade. As I said on our Q&A, the Scandinavian concept of corruption is entirely unknown to Somalis. If you’re sufficiently intrigued by all these stories of Somali fraud to inquire of your smartphone chatbot what is the Somali word for “fraud”, you will be informed that it is “khiyaamo”. Not so, not really. The primary meaning of “khiyaamo” is betrayal or treason – in other words, the only “fraudulence” comes from being disloyal to one’s clan or tribe. Bilking the federal and state bureaucracies out of billions for phony-baloney daycares is not “khiyaamo”, but doing what comes naturally. Indeed, it would be gross disloyalty to do otherwise.
On the other hand, a Lutheran willing to take a bullet to advance the Somalification of Minnesota is the very definition of “khiyaamo” – betrayal of one’s tribe. And, given that Sweden and Norway are well advanced on the same grim trajectory, that’s why an otherwise peripheral American state is so perfectly emblematic of the wider west. For a while, the incomers and the outgoers will live side by side: the low-IQ inbred bananas’n’rice types are shrewd enough not to get in the way of their useful idiots when they’re hurling themselves at ICE agents, never mind mutilating their children’s genitals and rendering them infertile. But in the fullness of time demography will tell.
If Garrison Keillor wished to perform one last service to his state, he would write a final book in which the New Minnesotans move to Lake Wobegon and open a Quality Learing Center. He’s got nothing to lose: He got #MeTooed up the wazoo a couple of years back and will never be on Minnesota Public Radio ever again. And, somewhere deep down, he must surely know his fellow Democrats are as wrong on the Somalification of the Midwest as they were on everything else.
