Why does minnesota seem so segregated??

[Glenfield]

Originally Posted by Minntoaz

Exactly and to add to your sound point 75% of people born in Minnesota end up here. That's a huge native population and obviously people just keep adding on to their roots... which like you stated started with Scandanavians or Irish, etc; immigrants. In addition there is a HUGE Catholic population here which in the 60's and 70's mostly did not believe in birth control so we have plenty of folks with 7+ kids from that generation. The demographics I do think will shift in the coming years but the weather aspect I believe keeps a lot of people raised in South or really anywhere else from moving to cold Minnesota.

Your comment about most Catholic families having seven or more children in the 1960s and 1970s is great I exaggerated, but if you have a source for this claim, please provide a link.

People for whom cold weather is a deal breaker assume that everyone shares that value. In the end, the steady economy and availability of good jobs trumps all other considerations. That's why we have a booming population of Latin American immigrants.