This thread is funny.
The Twin Cities and Seattle do have some things in common:
Both cities have good high tech industry (Computer/software in Seattle, medical in Minneapolis)
Both cities are progressive.
Both have crappy weather for 8 months out of the year.
Both have ample access, though very different, to water for recreational opportunities.
Both cities are a relatively short drive to beautiful wilderness.
But this thread isn't about Minneapolis/St. Paul. It's about Albert Lea and Seattle. And I doubt very much that Albert Lea is more liberal than Seattle.
Albert Lea elects a strip club owner to their city council. Seattle gets all prudish and whiny about them.
There are probably very large cultural reasons for this that I could get into, but it doesn't make Albert Lea more liberal than Seattle.
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