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Minnesota

Thor_MN

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9. There is a large Urban/Rural divide.

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Wed Nov 23, 2016, 01:01 AM

Nov 2016

The Rural areas feel that their tax dollars are funneled into urban areas to pay for everything in the cities. The Urban areas feel their tax dollars are being taken to pay for outstate needs.

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