Reader’s view: Why is ‘Minnesota Nice’ seen as a negative?
July 13, 2010 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Columnist Joe Soucheray’s argument on the June 27 Sunday Opinion page that our state’s residents cannot figure out how to use the “zipper” to pass neighbors in traffic during freeway construction because we are so Minnesota Nice was not very observant. Continue Reading
I have lived in Texas where people were friendly but insincere. When they said: “y’all come back y’hear” I used to say how’s Thursday? They were busy.
Minnesota Nice is different and unique to this region. It’s more about helping than words. Our whole family was taken from a snow drift one night by a stranger. I have seen people shovel their neighbor’s steps without being asked. This is Minnesota Nice. Passive resistance is not the same thing!
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Hope I can live up to your image. Good goal.
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I’d be interested to hear what the one person who gave that a thumbs down didn’t like about it.
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Minnesota Nice is always linked to a buffet line, why is that true! We all line up in the grocery store to taste that awful creamy stuff they spread on crackers and we all say it’s good in spite of the fact that we all know it isn’t good at all! Maybe it’s the passive agressive traits we all pick up from being nearly frozen to death every winter and found still alive in the spring.
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Soucheray was talking about drivers and he was right. He should spend a day driving around in Duluth. Some of you people are really something else.
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