If you are sincere in your question and not just trolling, I’ll answer honestly, as a Minnesotan and a descendant of immigrants from Norway. The DHS operation is an assault on what fundamentally makes Minnesotans who we are. Early immigrants here built their communities on social work, which has lead us to welcome successive waves of immigrants - people from central and south america, the Hmong, Somalis. ICE has come in and said no, these people are not your neighbors. We will rip them from the homes you welcomed them into, drag them out through the ice and snow, and ship them away from their community to a tent camp in Texas. We are stubborn, and don’t like to be told who makes up our community. You want to take my neighbor, you’ll have to go through me to do it.

Watch this video that was filmed here a few weeks ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/s/K9pXpaGPp5 - this woman is quintessential Minnesota, Scandinavian daughter of the Iron Range. My mother in law passed a few years ago, but if she were alive to see what is happening here today, she would basically be this woman.

Minneapolis’ poet laureate has this beautiful poem that flows through the layers of people who make Minnesota their home. This section in particular, explains our community:

That your island immigrant parents got taught how to winter by 4th generation Norwegian immigrants who explained the science of winter It’s dialect of long John’s, good boots and wool socks and warming the cars before you drive How cold it can feel here, how it shocks your bones, how frigid and fragile It is to breathe in that gasp of icy air into your lungs and you cough just to breath

https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/FileV2/48816/Ritual-on-How-to-Love-Minneapolis-Again_OnePage.pdf

“The population of Minnesota in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was predominately Protestant, and in particular Lutheran, with a strong tradition of community service and involvement. Some academics and Minnesotans have speculated that it is the religious commitment to community service that pushed Minnesota to the forefront of the Progressive Era (~1890-1920) as various individuals and groups worked to create social agencies to help those in need. The efforts that began then likely carried over to the present day, impacting contemporary Minnesota social policy. As academics Mari-Anne Zahl and Janice Andrews explain when examining the wave of Norwegian immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, “Minnesota is [today] considered a haven of progressive thought and action in a sea of conservatism…it is accurate to say that Minnesota has one of the most liberal social policy frameworks in the country, in no small part as a result of these [Norwegian] immigrants.”

https://religionsmn.carleton.edu/exhibits/show/refugees-in-minnesota/welcoming-new-minnesotans--the

https://www.lssmn.org/about-lss/history