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It's not the best but I wouldn't pull my hair out like I want to with the midwestern argument. I'm still a but confused on the Dallas relationship. They look nothing alike and are culturally pretty different.
The thing about the Minneapolis/Denver comparison is that the city of Minneapolis and the city of Denver are pretty similar but a lot of the suburbs of each are fairly different. Minneapolis proper is an outlier within the Midwest, once you get into the Twin Cities suburbs you get into the yah, you betcha country pretty quickly. The stereotypical Minnesota culture is pretty different than Colorado but is almost nonexistent within the city which tends to be more cosmopolitan and alternative. So being kind of like Minneapolis doesn't make Denver Midwestern.
The thing about the Minneapolis/Denver comparison is that the city of Minneapolis and the city of Denver are pretty similar but a lot of the suburbs of each are fairly different. Minneapolis proper is an outlier within the Midwest, once you get into the Twin Cities suburbs you get into the yah, you betcha country pretty quickly. The stereotypical Minnesota culture is pretty different than Colorado but is almost nonexistent within the city which tends to be more cosmopolitan and alternative. So being kind of like Minneapolis doesn't make Denver Midwestern.
That makes sense, which is why I let the Minneapolis comparisons slide but not the midwestern ones. I haven't been there but from streetview, they look pretty similar and are about the same size.
Yeah, Minneapolis is really different than the rest of Minnesota.
Hell, it's pretty different than St. Paul.
St. Paul feels more classically Midwestern than Minneapolis. I still don't see what's so western about Minneapolis though. St. Paul is basically Minneapolis with less modern construction and a more old world eastern feel.
Colorado was the first state to legalize cannabis, next was Oregon and the rest of the west coast but Colorado lead that push. Cannabis liberalism being more of a west coast thing ever since California's medical program. I don't see many connections to the midwest outside of similar scenery on the plains.
Wrong. Washington and Colorado voted to legalize recreational use marijuana on the same day. Colorado always makes the news. Washington almost never does.
St. Paul feels more classically Midwestern than Minneapolis. I still don't see what's so western about Minneapolis though. St. Paul is basically Minneapolis with less modern construction and a more old world eastern feel.
I don't think it is that Minneapolis is western so much as people don't know what box to put it in because it isn't stereotypically Midwestern - it is newer, was never part of the rust belt, and is farther to the left than most Midwestern cities. It draws the same sort of Midwestern transplant that also goes to Denver, Portland or Seattle.
Wrong. Washington and Colorado voted to legalize recreational use marijuana on the same day. Colorado always makes the news. Washington almost never does.
Colorado made the news because it started selling months before Washington.
Wrong. Washington and Colorado voted to legalize recreational use marijuana on the same day. Colorado always makes the news. Washington almost never does.
I guess Colorado is more culturally influential than Washington. JK.
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Colorado made the news because it started selling months before Washington.
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