So, why does St. Louis co Minnesota vote so blue?

usregimechange

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Sat Sep-20-08 07:39 PM
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So, why does St. Louis co Minnesota vote so blue?

From MO and can't figure it out. Doesn't seem to be a demographic reason that I can find.

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Sat Sep-20-08 07:42 PM
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1. Heavy union influence due to the iron mines, is my guess

Also, James Oberstar, otherwise an old-style labor DFLer, keeps his mostly Catholic constituency happy by voting anti-choice.

This is similar to the tactic of Oregon's Peter DeFazio, who is definitely on the left end of things but keeps the loggers and fishermen in his district happy by voting against gun control.

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dflprincess

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Sat Sep-20-08 08:42 PM
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2. Isn't Duluth in St. Louis County as well?

So you have UMD and St. Scholastica. Plus, as LL, said, the unions in the area. Really the Range was a big area for the Farmer-Laborites - I'm imagine some of those attitudes have been handed down.

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LaraMN

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Tue Sep-30-08 07:37 PM
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9. Bingo.

The Duluth area has record voter turnout and a legacy of political involvement due in large part to the heavy union presence. It's a remarkable area, politically.

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djkevvy

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Sat Sep-20-08 10:49 PM
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3. Environment (Boundary Waters), Union/Economy (Iron Mines)

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ogneopasno

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Sun Sep-21-08 05:05 PM
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4. Duluth, some of the Iron Range,

and we're just really smart up here.

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goodhue

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Mon Sep-22-08 05:52 PM
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5. its da range

union, blue collar, socialist roots
plenty of finns, swedes, slovaks, croats moved there to mine over 100 years ago

http://nrhp.mnhs.org/iron_range.html

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jwirr

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Mon Sep-22-08 09:55 PM
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6. One word - Union.

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dragonlady

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Wed Sep-24-08 12:35 AM
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7. Douglas County in Wisconsin is reliably Democratic too

It's the county that includes Superior.

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mediaman007

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Thu Sep-25-08 04:28 PM
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8. It has some of the greatest K-12 schools in the state!

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Frosty1

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Mon Oct-06-08 09:49 AM
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10. We are smarter than the average bear

:hi:

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