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Red States, Blue Cities: Minnesota, Somalia and ‘The Great Replacement’

Posted on | December 14, 2025 | No Comments

In an appearance Friday on Fox News, Trump strategist Stephen Miller said the Somali welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota could end up “being the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history.” The complete scale of this fraud has yet to be fully calculated, but the total amount certainly appears to be in the billions of dollars. The underlying question is why and how the situation in Minnesota developed, and was allowed to continue for so long, and the basic answer is Democrats — or, as they call themselves in Minnesota, the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL).

The one thing we know about Democrats is that they crave political power like a junkie craves heroin. They have no actual principles other than winning elections. If winning an election requires them to appear “moderate,” Democratic candidates will espouse middle-of-the-road views, and even position themselves to the right of their Republican opponents. Such was the case, for example, during much of Joe Biden’s career; seeing which way the political winds were blowing in the 1990s, Biden vehemently expressed “tough-on-crime” views that make Donald Trump seem soft by comparison. Biden also talked tough on immigration back in the day, and this brings us to the question of why Democrats are now rallying in defense of illegal aliens, including millions who flooded into the country during Biden’s failed White House tenure. Quite simply, this was about Democrats importing future Democratic voters.

This is the presidential election map of Minnesota in 2020, when Biden got about 1.7 million votes (52%) to Trump’s approximately 1.5 million votes (45%). Biden won 13 counties, while Trump won 74 counties. And the important point is that Biden’s winning margin came entirely from Minneapolis-St. Paul. The official statewide vote total was 3,277,171 and nearly one-third of those votes (1,051,946) came from Hennepin County (Minneapolis) and Ramsey County (St. Paul). Biden got more than 70% of the vote in those two counties, with 532,623 votes in Hennepin and 211,620 votes in Ramsey — a combined 744,243 votes in the Twin Cities. These votes were 43% of Biden’s statewide total, and his total vote in Hennepin/Ramsey was more than three times larger than his statewide margin (233,012 votes) over Trump. Outside of Hennepin and Ramsey counties, there were 2,225,225 voters cast; in the non-Twin Cities counties, Trump got 1,200,716 votes (54%) to Biden’s 972,834 (44%). Even winning the rest of the state by a 10-point margin isn’t enough to overcome the Democratic urban vote in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

What is true in Minnesota is true of many other similar states, including all the “blue wall” states (Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin) where Trump edged out Kamala Harris in 2024. Philadelphia dominates statewide politics in Pennsylvania, as Detroit does Michigan and Milwaukee does Wisconsin. In almost any other state where Democrats are at least competitive at the statewide level, their hopes for victory rest on racking up lopsided margins in urban areas, sufficient to overcome the Republican advantage among suburban and rural voters.

Red States, Blue Cities — that’s the fundamental reality of politics in America today, and it explains why Democrats have dug in their heels to prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants. Because liberals have lower birth rates than do conservatives, Democrat-controlled jurisdictions would be losing population (and hence, political influence) compared to Republican-controlled jurisdictions. Because immigrant voters historically favor Democrats, the importation of masses of foreigners helps Democrats overcome the advantage Republicans hold among native-born Americans. Because the presidency and the Senate are both determined by statewide votes, and because the census redistributes House seats (and thus, Electoral College votes) every 10 years according to the population of states, demographics is destiny in American politics.

Minnesota hosts the largest Somali population in the U.S., with recent estimates placing the number of Somali residents around 80,000 to over 100,000, primarily concentrated in the Twin Cities area, making it a significant cultural and political force in the state.

That’s the AI summary from Google, and while 80,000 may seem a trifling number in a state where more than 3 million votes are cast in presidential election years, their numbers are sufficient to ensure Rep. Ilhan Omar’s election to Congress. The revelation that Somalis in Minnesota were engaged in a gigantic fraud — potentially “the greatest financial fraud scandal in American history,” as Miller said — casts a new light on the policy and politics of immigration. As I wrote about the next mayor of New York City last week for The American Spectator:

Analysis of polls in the mayoral election showed a curious anomaly. Among those born in the United States, only 31 percent supported Mamdani, who was favored by 62 percent of immigrant voters. After Mamdani won, exit polls showed that he got only 34 percent of the vote among those who had been born in New York City, but 83 percent among those who had lived in the city for five years or less. It’s said that “The Great Replacement” is a racist conspiracy theory, but in New York, it’s an accurate description of the Democratic Party strategy for victory — drive out the native-born population and replace them with immigrants who vote for Democrats.

In other words, just because it’s a “racist conspiracy theory” doesn’t mean it’s not actually happening. The nature of American politics, where Democrats use urban votes to obtain power in ways that negate the political influence of non-urban voters, makes this a legitimate concern when Democrats then use immigration policy to add to their urban constituency. The fact that these new-minted Democratic voters may also be swindling billions of dollars from taxpayers is just toxic icing on the poisonous cake, and there are still five A’s in “RAAAAACIST!”



 

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