He said many residents see the Twin Cities — also known as “the Cities” in these parts — as almost another world.

That’s something out of fifth rate fiction. It really is a thing to behold. “In them parts - if you go to see a movie - they allow the colore— um… the black people to sit near you. Some of them aren’t even American. It ain’t natural.”

Also - it’s amusing to me that the byline includes four reporters. It took four fuckers to report this shit? I wonder which of them is the failed novelist.