The Great Replacement: Minneapolis
This is the fifth in a series about the continuing disappearance of whites from American cities (see our earlier entries for Birmingham, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago). Many people still pretend that The Great Replacement is a myth or a conspiracy theory, but the graphs that accompany each article in this series prove them wrong. Every city has a different story but all have seen a dramatic replacement of whites by minorities.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, was almost entirely white until 1980... Now, the idyllic city created by settlers and pioneers is a center for black crime and Islamic terrorist recruitment....
The city’s story began when the United States Army built Fort Snelling after the War of 1812 to guard American settlers....
From 1870 to 1890, Minneapolis grew from 13,000 people to almost 165,000. Almost everyone was white....
Minneapolis was a critical battleground for the Progressive movement. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party didn’t unite with the Democrats until 1944... Class and ideology — not race — dominated city politics....
Non-whites started coming to the city in large numbers in the 1970s and 1980s. By 1990, the city was more than 20 percent non-white. Some migrants may have been tempted by Minnesota’s generous welfare programs. However, there was also a deliberate effort by churches and refugee settlement organizations to bring them. Corporations also wanted cheap labor, such as the meat packers who hired Somalis....
Organizations such as Lutheran Social Services, Catholic Charities, and World Relief Minnesota have worked with the State Department to settle foreign “refugees.” Many such organizations are essentially funded by the federal government, and have a clear financial interest to importing migrants. Without government, there would not be nearly so much resettlement....
In 2004, Minnesota was the number-one destination for foreign refugees on a per-capita basis...