MINNESOTA: A CAUTIONARY TALE.

Don’t be Minnesota.

From the Minneapolis Star Tribune,

Don’t Minnesota my state: Land of 10,000 Lakes becomes a political punching bag.

The Star Tribune is completely baffled by this development, which they view as wholly undeserved. The Star Tribune blames “conservative candidates” and Trump for the phenomenon.

The Star Tribune tracks down a political science professor who attributes the state’s unwanted status entirely to a Trump “grudge.”

No, I think there’s more to Minnesota’s recent PR decline than that: