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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Well, Conservatives have long criticized the progressive tendencies to assume that government's always a

solution and to judge policies by their intentions instead of their results.

Both of these fallacies were on full display in a recent piece by Catherine Rample in the Washington Post. Waltz has helped make Minnesota the model of a pro-family state.

In her telling, free school lunches, assistance with children's medical insurance, free

college for low-income families, paid family leave, these have all been, and I quote here,

politically smart, physically sound, and family-friendly.

They are also, she wrote, and I quote again, long overdue pretty much everywhere else in America, and proof that one major party

cares about children and families, and the other does not.

She then concluded that Democrats should seriously consider rebranding themselves as the mama ticket,

Make America Minnesota already, as a way to Trump, Trump's Make America Great Again brand.

But the only problem with this bright picture of the North Star State is, as Lyman Stone and

Brad Wilcox wrote for the Institute of Family Studies, Minnesota is anything but a utopia for families.

In fact, it's among the many blue states that have lost the most families

to mainly red states like Idaho, Texas, and South Carolina.

According to IFS's America Community Survey, more families with children left Minnesota in 2021

then move there, bringing the net loss of families there to around 4,000.

As Wilcox and Stone wrote,

quote, parents are not generally moving towards

states with the preferred family policies of progressives.

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