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« on: December 12, 2021, 02:29:51 AM »

Edina was kind of notoriously as such, as well as heavily anti-Semitic. In fact a lot of neighborhoods in Edina even made sure to put in their contracts when selling houses that the house could not be resold to Jews.

BTW this is how the notable Jewish population in St. Louis Park came to be, up until the 60s it was one of the only municipalities in Hennepin County that didn't explicitly discriminate against Jews, so many of them settled there. The only other such municipality in Hennepin County was Minnetonka, and it has a notably high Jewish population as well.
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BRTD
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« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2021, 06:36:54 PM »

Edina was kind of notoriously as such, as well as heavily anti-Semitic. In fact a lot of neighborhoods in Edina even made sure to put in their contracts when selling houses that the house could not be resold to Jews.

BTW this is how the notable Jewish population in St. Louis Park came to be, up until the 60s it was one of the only municipalities in Hennepin County that didn't explicitly discriminate against Jews, so many of them settled there. The only other such municipality in Hennepin County was Minnetonka, and it has a notably high Jewish population as well.
Does this explain differences in the voting patterns between Minnetonka and Eden Prairie?
That's mostly Eden Prairie being Eden Prairie. The epitome of a snooty upper class suburb. A place that it's strange to imagine even voting D, much less >60% D.
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2021, 10:55:24 PM »

There aren't any sundown towns today. "Sundown town" does not mean "place that is pretty racist."
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