Ok den. I've bin up in Nort west minnesoooota for over a week den and I've noticed I've picked up on da scandihuvian accent again, den. It took me a few years to lose it after movin sout, but sure enough den, a few days and der it was again.I used to be one of those folks that hated the movie Fargo. I'm still not a fan, but I can admit now, that there's some truth in the movie's portrayal. Some stereotypes do have a base of reality. And the scandinavian dialect used in the movie is alive and well in many parts of Northwest Minnesota. That's just part of the cultural norm up here. Another reality is the culture clash between the Lutherans and the Catholics. Nevermind that they are both Christian denominations, to talk to some folks up here, you'd think we were talking about the differences between Islam and Christianity. It's almost like a rivalry, except for some, its much more serious than chiding one another for sport.
Yesterday, on the way back from Fargo we went through a very small town--maybe a total of five blocks long. This town appeared to be the epitomy of the Minnesota Catholic Lutheran clash. Take a close look at the two pictures of the two churches in town. One was on the north end of town and four blocks away was the other on the south end of town. They're the only two churches I noticed in this town of 122 people. Never mind philosophical differences, it looks like these churches had to even compete over what to name their churches. BTW: the name of this city is not Holy Trinity.
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