Ever see the blue/red map for Minnesota? The ONLY counties that go democrat are the 7 county metro and St. Louis County (Duluth). The reason is those counties contain the highest population of "people leeching off the system" for lack of a better description.
It's welfare recipients that cause this state to go Dem in almost all elections. I believe there is light at the end of the dark democrat tunnel though, with a cleanly elected republican governor, and Norm Coleman in the senate, that even though Wellstone would likely have won if he was still alive last election day, all the polls showed it was extremely close.
I think the working people of this state are sick of funding every liberal handout program, and they're voting their mind. Spread the good word. If we get more likeminded folks to the polls, maybe we can retake this state from the whiny leftist commy wienies.