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Why do Conservatives frequently bring up Somali immigration to Minnesota?
Minnesota in the USA has a large and seemingly random Somali and Hmong population. What other regions of the world have a large and seemingly random migrant population?
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There are roughly 40,000 Somali immigrants living in Minnesota, a state with a population of 5.8 million. If you include people that are ethnically Somali but aren't immigrants, it's still only 90,000. Yet I see people say things like "Minnesota isn't Minnesota any more" or "Somalis run the state now". Sure, there are certain neighborhoods with large Somali populations in terms of percentage, but the state overall has 44 times as many white people as Somali people. White people run Minnesota. There are a total of 4 black people in the Minnesota House and Senate combined, so even if all 4 were Somali, they would be 2% of the state legislature.
Note: Some of this data is from 2023 and 2024, so it might not be 100% accurate, but it should be close enough to present-day numbers