Don't think it can't happen here...

[Heffay]

You are whitewashing the fact that it is thousands of people concentrated in the inner city, likely public housing. That can make a subculture shift.

I'm more worried about the Wisconsification of Minnesota, since it's roughly the same number of people as from Chicago.

They can keep their ******* beer and backwards brat preparations out of our pure-bred state! Grill then boil brats? Heresy!

[texasprowler]

This goofy state charges $10 per carton for smokes under the pretence that all smokers will need public healthcare services. What a sham. I see no reason why they wouldn't follow suit with firearm tax.

After all, there is a giant unfunded Union promise for public employee retirement benefits in this state.

[One Man Wolf Pack]

Pony you are a fool .I work with a born and raised Chicagoan who imports her family and friends to come here and live on the dole.

We were talking about SAMs club, she asked me do they take ebt?

For the down and out, or those hoping for a better life, think of Chicago as Mexico and MN as the US. That is the draw that we have to them. We are a welfare mecca.

So scoff all you'd like. Go pray at the altar or you snarky man crush Richie Maddow and ignore reality until it's too late.

[Jeff Bergquist]

You are whitewashing the fact that it is thousands of people concentrated in the inner city, likely public housing. That can make a subculture shift.

So are you saying that our inner cities would be a republican voting suburban utopia like the rest of the metro if it weren't for the migrants from Chicago? My experience having lived in the inner city my entire life is that there are a significant number of people there who used to live in Chicago, or Gary, or St.Louis, etc., But IMO there are many living in those cities who used to live in Minneapolis as well. Maybe the welfare benefits are a lure to some, but what I've usually found is that this is how poor folks can afford to travel to try to change their scene, by moving out of their inner city and living with relatives who will probably live in another inner city. IMO most of the ghetto cross pollination is just people hoping the grass will be greener somewhere else, and not some kind of systematic invasion.

[Jeff Bergquist]

This goofy state charges $10 per carton for smokes under the pretence that all smokers will need public healthcare services. What a sham. I see no reason why they wouldn't follow suit with firearm tax.

After all, there is a giant unfunded Union promise for public employee retirement benefits in this state.

The difference is that less than 25% of people smoke, and most of those who do would prefer to quit someday, so it is kind of a guilty pleasure for them. However close to 50% of the people own guns, and very many of them vote based on that, and thus are not as easily picked on. IMO severe changes in the gun laws are just not politically viable now, despite how much some of the more extreme congress critters would like them to be. The post AWB purge of 1994 is still fresh in most memories.