Your feelings about WI (Minneapolis, Madison: best city, high school, university)

[knke0402]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

My point exactly if you read my post. The Twin Cities are known for Hip Hop. Not a lot of Hip Hop in Maple Grove, Andover, Forest Lake, Chanhassen etc. (Thank God).

Oh I get it now, I should have read it clearer. Ha-ha

[cobolt]

I personally like Wisconsin, although many other Illinoians make jokes about the state. I find it funny that they also choose Wisconsin to summer vacation and get some awesome cheese and beer, so go figure. I would say MN is a bit better about the property taxes, so it depends on what you're looking for.

[WestWisGuy]

HAving lived in WI my entire life I can tell you that this is a beautiful state. I woulsd assume that you are looking at moving east of the metro. Either N or S of the Interstate. There are some lovely communities that have several homes available. Buyers market with the low interest rate as well as quite a few foreclosures. I would stay away from any developments. Too many covenants. The property taxes are higher but their are other taxes that are less. A state government needs working capital and their is no such thing as a free ride.

[asitshouldbe]

Isn't everything legal in WI? Fireworks, drinking at an early age and everywhere, everyday of the week. if you go there, cover your MN plates or they will come after you.
Those "cheeseheads"

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by MN-Born-n-Raised

Take out MPLS and St. Paul and you pretty much remove any of the Hip-Hop related culture. Generally speaking, the MN population is very homogeneous which is heavy on the Scandinavian ancestry. Not as lot of Hip-Hop in MN unless you consider Weird Al Yankovic as an artist.

More German than Scandanavian, I'd bet.

[Sarimn00]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

More German than Scandanavian, I'd bet.

Yeah, I think there are more Germans than Scandanavians. I can't remember where I read it, though.

[ozzie679]

Originally Posted by Sarimn00

Yeah, I think there are more Germans than Scandanavians. I can't remember where I read it, though.

Some numbers from 2000. Ethnic groups in the US
1. German 42,841,569 15.2%
2. Irish 30,524,799 10.8
3. African American1 24,903,412 8.8
4. English 24,509,692 8.7
5. American1 20,188,305 7.2
6. Mexican 18,382,291 6.5
7. Italian 15,638,348 5.6
8. Polish 8,977,235 3.2
9. French 8,309,666 3.0
10. American Indian1 7,876,568 2.8
11. Scottish 4,890,581 1.7
12. Dutch 4,541,770 1.6
13. Norwegian 4,477,725 1.6
14. Scotch-Irish 4,319,232 1.5
15. Swedish 3,998,310 1.4

[rcsteiner]

Originally Posted by ozzie679

Some numbers from 2000. Ethnic groups in the US

Yes, but the Scandanavian numbers will be quite a bit higher in MN than they are nationwide, I would suspect. But I bet German would be the highest in MN anyway.

[fromupthere]

I actually think the German population is higher in Wisconsin than it is in Minnesota (but admittedly I could be way off in that).

[silverjet]

Originally Posted by fromupthere

I actually think the German population is higher in Wisconsin than it is in Minnesota (but admittedly I could be way off in that).

Well, according from this page straight from City Data, here is some interesting info about the ethnic makeup of Wisconsin:

As early as 1839, Wisconsin attracted immigrants from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, soon to be followed by large numbers of Germans and Irish. In 1850, the greatest number of foreign-born persons were English-speaking, but within a decade, the Germans had eclipsed them. Industrial development brought Belgians, Greeks, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Italians, and especially Poles, who continued to come steadily until the restriction of immigration in the early 1920s; in the 1930 census, Poles were the largest foreign-born group. In 2000, foreign-born residents numbered 193,751 (3.6% of the total).

Black Americans were in the region as early as 1822. Before World War I, however, there were no more than 3,000 blacks. Migration during and after that war brought the number to 10,739 by 1930; by 1990, blacks were the largest racial minority in the state, numbering 245,000 (5% of Wisconsin's population). As of 2000, the black population was 304,460, or 5.7% of the state total. Most black Wisconsinites live in Milwaukee, which was 37% black in 2000.

The Asian population in 2000 was 88,763. In that year Wisconsin had 33,791 Hmong (the nation's 3rd-largest Hmong community), 11,184 Chinese, 6,800 Koreans, 5,158 Filipinos, and 4,469 Laotians. Pacific Islanders numbered 1,630. As of 2000, there were 192,921 Hispanics and Latinos (3.6% of the total population), of whom 126,719 were of Mexican ancestry and 30,267 of Puerto Rican descent.

Wisconsin had an estimated 47,228 American Indians in 2000, up from 39,000 American Indians in 1990. The principal tribes are Oneida, Menominee, Ojibwa (Chippewa), and Winnebago. There were 11 reservations, the largest being that of the Menominee, which comprised Menominee County (345 sq mi, 896 sq km) and had a population of 3,225 in 2000. Indian reservations covered 634 sq mi (1,642 sq km).