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Hello and welcome back to the Americana Show. My name is Freddie Gray. I am the deputy editor of the

spectator and the US editor. And I'm pleased to tell you that this is the 10th year of the

Americano podcast. And I think it's fair to say it's been a fairly fascinating time in American politics, life and culture.

And that's what we talk about every episode on this podcast. So please keep listening and provide as

much feedback as you like. I'm delighted to be joined today by Bill Glawn, who is an investigative

journalist and a policy fellow at the American

Experiment Institute. We are going to be talking about Minnesota and Minneapolis because while

Donald Trump is causing all sorts of conictions and eruptions on the world stage, there is this

bubbling and ongoing story of protests, counter-protests and unrest

in Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota. Bill, I wanted to start by asking you, for Europeans and

Brits, who probably think of Minnesota as a state occupied by Scandinavian, peace-loving people. It's a bit baffling

that the state should be so convulsed with politics and kind of left liberal politics as well.

Can you explain a little bit about why Minnesota seems to be in the American news so much?

Yeah, well, I use the Churchillian phrase, produces more

news that could be consumed locally. Well, you are correct that the origins of the state, the people

other than the Aboriginal Native Americans who populated the state were, for the most part,

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