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Re: Moral NANNIES? said by Authority:I'm always amazed when these rural states come up with this stuff, I think it's because they're so isolated from civilization. Wow, typical California attitude there. If you don't live on the coast, you're just a rube on a dirt farm. I met a whole bunch of people in San Francisco with that attitude a few years ago. Couldn't wait to get away from them.
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Woodland Hills, CA | said by footballdude:Wow, typical California attitude there. If you don't live on the coast, you're just a rube on a dirt farm. I met a whole bunch of people in San Francisco with that attitude a few years ago. Couldn't wait to get away from them. Well let's be honest, the best and brightest and most accomplished people in human society tend to group together in the major hubs for commerce and culture. Sorry if that's not politically correct, but it's a fact. |
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| said by Authority:the best and brightest and most accomplished people in human society tend to group together in the major hubs for commerce and culture. Sorry if that's not politically correct, but it's a fact. More like the self important and ego centric. If all the best and brightest are in California, then why is California broke?
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Woodland Hills, CA | said by footballdude:said by Authority:the best and brightest and most accomplished people in human society tend to group together in the major hubs for commerce and culture. Sorry if that's not politically correct, but it's a fact. More like the self important and ego centric. If all the best and brightest are in California, then why is California broke? Too close to Mexico.  |
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Your arrogance is unmatched by anyone I've ever seen on this forum. You make the general assumption that anything not on the coast is rural. Don't forget there are major central American hubs, specifically the Twin Cities on the Mississippi, Duluth on Lake Superior, Chicago etc. Not to mention this rural state has one of the, if not, the most highly regarded medical facilities in the world. You might have missed it, but Minnesota has the second (or third) busiest international railroad in the country. You realize that the iron most used in the United States comes from Minnesota's iron range? Did you realize that some of the most successful businesses in the country/world were started in Minnesota? Hormel, 3M, Best Buy, Honeywell(before the merger), and Medtronic?
Quit living in your stupid idealized world that the west coast is America's pinnacle of civilization. Also, don't tread on rural peoples waters. Their innovation is what powered much of America's industrial revolution, why do you think Wal-Mart started out mastering their supply chain better than anyone else? They had to, they focused on RURAL communities and it helped them be the best.
To address the topic, I'm sick of the blue laws in this state, no off sale on Sunday, this morality crusade needs to end. Having the second city in the nation to ban smoking in public was enough. I find it hard to believe this is effecting the DNR's revenue pool as much as politicians taking more than their fair share from the pot.
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2 edits | said by pp03:You might have missed it, but Minnesota has the second (or third) busiest international railroad in the country. You realize that the iron most used in the United States comes from Minnesota's iron range? Did you realize that some of the most successful businesses in the country/world were started in Minnesota? Hormel, 3M, Best Buy, Honeywell(before the merger), and Medtronic? Well you got me there, that railroad will surely draw out every new graduate...
Look I understand hometown pride and all that but I'm amazed when people seem intentionally blind to the obvious. Talented, ambitious intelligent people are drawn like magnets to cultural centers. New York. San Francisco. Boston. Los Angeles. London. You don't graduate with a business degree from a top school and say hmmm... I'm going to go out and change the world starting in Minnesota.
You can call it arrogant if that makes you feel better, but the fact remains that the coastal population centers are where our cultural, political, economic, scientific, and financial action happens... and while there are always exceptions, that's usually where the smart people want to be.
Addendum: "The 2000 United States Census Bureau published a special report on domestic worker migration, with a focus on the movement of young, single, college-educated migrants.[59] The data shows a trend of such people moving away from the Rust Belt and northern Great Plains region towards the West Coast and Southeast. The area with the largest net influx of young, single, college-educated persons was the San Francisco Bay Area." »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_drain |
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1 edit | It isn't being naive and full of home town pride, you just seem to pretend that all great achievement has been on each coast or will be; it hasn't and it won't.
Many people with top degrees come to Minnesota to 'change the world', it is in the top 6 (or was) most educated population in the Union, according to degree per capita. I don't notice a large amount of brain drain.
»encarta.msn.com/encnet/departmen···edstates
Pretend for a moment I'm not very imaginative, it isn't hard to do, because I'm not.
Give me one hypothetical situation whereby you can change more in California, for the world, than you can in Minnesota. That seems o be your reigning belief, so again it can even be hypothetical. Remember, modern era, global world -- internet, so 20th century examples and earlier are not likely valid arguments.
Edit: In regard to your link, the rust belt is/was a deteriorating manufacturing hub far away from Minnesota and its deterioration is a lot more to do with affordable production costs abroad, not in CA or NY. As far as the Northern planes, such a small section of that is the Southwest corner of Minnesota that it isn't even worth mentioning :P But, for those states that is an issue. Their private sector doesn't have vast opportunity in many fields because they are primarily agricultural states.
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2 edits | said by pp03:It isn't being naive and full of home town pride, you just seem to pretend that all great achievement has been on each coast or will be; it hasn't and it won't. Gonna have to disagree with you there. I'm sure it's a nice place to raise a family, but it's not exactly where movers and shakers want to be. I think you're too disconnected from that world to understand that, so let's just agree to disagree. |
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