The year was 1890. Benjamin Harrison sat in the White House. French and Irish Saint Paul was the capitol; German Minneapolis, a competing german Milltown up the river. My paternal great great (great?) grandfather Heinrich had been in the latter city for at least a decade
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Heretofore, Saint Paul had dominated her neighbor as a much larger city, but changes were afoot, and when the 1890 decennial census began tensions flared
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Indeed it looked as though Minneapolis might dethrone Saint Paul as the largest city in the state (although Saint Paul's capitol status was secure) But Saint Paul would not take this lying down
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No one knows who made the first move but by the end both cities were covered in blood and infamy Scores of dead men were added to Census rosters upstream and down Census workers were kidnapped and held hostage Gangs fought pitched battles in the streetspic.twitter.com/VyetLkFYP9
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Sadly, no one knows how the story ends The 1890 census results were destroyed in a fire, some say by a recalcitrant Saint Pauline supremacistpic.twitter.com/ULOiPnEfjY
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Such raucous, violent energy still burns in the heart of every Minnesotan We bide our time Bake our hotdish And wait for the day when we are called to rise again, put chicago and the Coasts to the sword, and reclaim what is ours.
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You have this in NYC too.
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Walter Liggett?
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