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The contradictions of ‘Minnesota nice’

  • Written by Giang Nguyen-Dien, Postdoctoral Fellow in American Culture Studies, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
imageMembers of St. Paul's Hmong community protest in 1998 after a local radio host said on air that Hmong immigrants needed to 'assimilate or hit the goddamn road.'Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune via Getty Images

After Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, much of the media coverage zeroed in on Walz’s Midwestern roots,...

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