Minnesotacide

I don't suppose many people - even many Americans - are terribly interested in Minnesota per se, but I am because it seems to me a near perfect and easily graspable symbol of the present state of the entire western world:

Importing people from a country with an average IQ in the mid 60's means you brought in a bunch of retards.

They aren't banana or rice but they are like banana and rice. I lost two IQ points listening. pic.twitter.com/Ls8VGgCJ5j

— Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) January 23, 2026

Minnesota: you don't have to be bananas to work here but it helps. I have nothing against the lady in the video. She is Somali, and she was consciously imported to Minnesota by the political establishment in order to be Somali in the Land of 10,000 Bananas. In that sense, she is doing a better job of being Somali than Minnesotans are doing of being Minnesotan. Nor am I entirely on board with all the sneering at the basement-level IQ. As I wrote back in the summer:

The Japanese are among the smartest people on the planet - average IQ 106. The Somalis are among the dumbest - average IQ 67.7. Yet being super-clever isn't preventing the Japs from Darwin Award-level self-extinction, while the Somalis are smart enough to fleece Dutch taxpayers for the costs of their fifteen inbred moronic kids. Yes, I'm aware there are persons who dispute the reliability of national IQ measurements, and I'm not unsympathetic: it might be more useful to develop an IQ test that's also capable of measuring the survival instinct.

At any rate, hands up if you'd like a Somali flying your 'plane? Or taking your appendix out? Or making a passable Hollandaise sauce for the eggs Benedict at your favourite upscale Minneapolis brunch spot?

Tough. 'Cause on the fifteen-kid two-house model you're not going to have any choice in the matter.

So the low-IQ types from Moronstan are winning, and the smart guys are exiting the stage of history. The average inbred Somali appears to know enough - unlike, say, an NPR-listening lesbian - not to attempt to mow down the most heavily armed constabulary on the planet.

As a general proposition, cultural perception is something of a lagging indicator. I am not sure I was familiar with the solitary identifier "Lutheran" until Garrison Keillor, then of Minnesota Public Radio, turned it into big bucks, with bestselling books such as Life Among the Lutherans and CDs called The Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra. He created a boffo radio hit about a fictional piece of Lutheran Minnesota called Lake Wobegon, where all the children are above average - as opposed to the New Minnesota presaged by the above video, where all the children will be below average.

The Lutheran church is the largest denomination in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, so, when Scandinavians emigrated to Minnesota, the applicable confessional adjective was an easy shorthand. In the 1940 US Census, Minnesota's most popular "mother tongues" (apologies to you trans types), after English, were German, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish. Eight decades later, they were Spanish, Hmong and Somali. That's to say, in the span of one human lifetime (to ignore for the moment America's declining life expectancy), Minnesota replaced Scandinavians with Somalis.

No prudent society would do such a thing. As we have had cause to note, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are among the Top Ten least corrupt nations on earth while Somalia is second only to South Sudan as the most corrupt. But that's not really a useful Hit Parade. As I said on our Q&A, the Scandinavian concept of corruption is entirely unknown to Somalis. If you're sufficiently intrigued by all these stories of Somali fraud to inquire of your smartphone chatbot what is the Somali word for "fraud", you will be informed that it is "khiyaamo". Not so, not really. The primary meaning of "khiyaamo" is betrayal or treason - in other words, the only "fraudulence" comes from being disloyal to one's clan or tribe. Bilking the federal and state bureaucracies out of billions for phony-baloney daycares is not "khiyaamo", but doing what comes naturally. Indeed, it would be gross disloyalty to do otherwise.

On the other hand, a Lutheran willing to take a bullet to advance the Somalification of Minnesota is the very definition of "khiyaamo" - betrayal of one's tribe. And, given that Sweden and Norway are well advanced on the same grim trajectory, that's why an otherwise peripheral American state is so perfectly emblematic of the wider west. For a while, the incomers and the outgoers will live side by side: the low-IQ inbred bananas'n'rice types are shrewd enough not to get in the way of their useful idiots when they're hurling themselves at ICE agents, never mind mutilating their children's genitals and rendering them infertile. But in the fullness of time demography will tell.

If Garrison Keillor wished to perform one last service to his state, he would write a final book in which the New Minnesotans move to Lake Wobegon and open a Quality Learing Center. He's got nothing to lose: He got #MeTooed up the wazoo a couple of years back and will never be on Minnesota Public Radio ever again. And, somewhere deep down, he must surely know his fellow Democrats are as wrong on the Somalification of the Midwest as they were on everything else.

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