Minnesota

Paul metropolitan area). See also Memphis Mafia. In recent years, new immigrants have added new religions to Minnesota, and there are now Islamic mosques, Buddhist temples, and Hindu mandirs in the state (many in the Minneapolis-St.
. Nearly 35% of Minnesotans identify themselves as Lutherans. Other. The largest Protestant denomination in the state is Lutheranism and the largest religious body in the state is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Military.

64% of Minnesotans are Protestant (mostly mainline Protestant), although there are also a large number of Roman Catholics (about 25% of the population). Sports Figures. The population distribution by age is (Northeast Midwest Institute):. Jurists, Politicians and Activists. More recent immigrant communities include the third-largest Hmong population in the United States (from the Laos/Cambodia/Vietnam region) and the largest urban center of Hmong population in the world, and a large presence of people from Somalia. Businesspeople. More than 8 out of 10 whites in Minnesota are of German or Scandinavian descent. Actors, Directors and Musicians.

Minnesotans traditionally count themselves as of Nordic descent (approximately 1.5 million people, 30% of the population, claim Danish, Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish ancestry), though more families originated in Germany (approximately 2 million people, 40% of the population). Other museums in the area include:. The racial makeup of the state is:. Along with the legendary Stax Sound, the museum also spotlights the music of Muscle Shoals, Motown, Hi and Atlantic. Most of the state's population is centered in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. The museum is home to a broad collection of artifacts, photographs, exhibits, commentary, and music. 5.3% of the people who live in Minnesota are foreign-born (compared to 11.1% for the nation). Also, there is the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.

The state population, as of 2003, was 5,059,375 (1.75% of the total national population), with a growth rate of 12.4% in the last 10 years (compared to 13.1% for the nation). The Children's Museum of Memphis features many interactive exhibits, including a simulated grocery store, a wood skyscraper maze, and full-scale models of a fire truck and an airplane fuselage. Paul, Bloomington, and Edina). A smaller art museum, the Dixion Gallery and Gardens focuses on impressionism and has several works by Monet, Degas and Renoir. The "retail capital" of the state is probably the Twin Cities suburb of Roseville, which recorded $14,870 per capita (though it is easily outstripped in total revenue by Minneapolis, St. The Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park, founded in 1916, serves as the region's major art museum. Census Bureau). was assassinated.

average of $9,190 (U.S. Memphis is home to the National Civil Rights Museum, located in the former Lorraine Motel, where the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Retail sales per capita were $10,260 in 1997, higher than the U.S. A month long festival, Memphis in May, is held each year to host the city's largest events like the Beale Street Music Festival, the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest and the Sunset Symphony. The Gross State Product was just under $173 billion in 1999 (Northeast Midwest Institute), with approximately $17.5 billion in exports in 2000. There are several art galleries in Memphis, including, most prominently, the Dixon Gallery. Minnesota businesses and individuals paid an average of 11.8% of their income in state and local taxes in 1998, down from 12.7% in 1996 (Minnesota Department of Revenue). Opera Memphis, the region's opera company, performs at the Clark Opera Memphis Center in East Memphis.

The state does not charge sales tax on clothing, services (massages, haircuts, auto work, etc), or non-prepared food items. Ballet Memphis, which is the region's only major ballet company, performs at The Orpheum Theatre. It has an income and sales tax, as well as levying taxes on a common range of goods such as tobacco, gasoline, and alcohol. The Memphis area is home to many of West Tennessee's larger arts and culutral organizations, such as the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, which performs at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis. Minnesota is regarded as a high-tax state by some. Carnival salutes various aspects of Memphis and its industries, and is reigned over by the current year's secretly selected King & Queen of Carnival. However, water- and rail-borne traffic has been declining steadily over the years. Carnival Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival), is a series of parties and festivities staged every year by the Carnival Memphis Association and its member krewes (similar to that of Mardi Gras) during the early summer.

The state has been a major influence in the area of transportation, moving products along the Mississippi River, in and out of the inland seaport of Duluth, along railroads that criss-cross the state, via highways with trucking and busing companies, and through the air with a major airline hub. Jude Classic, a PGA Tour golf tournament. As of January 2005, the state is the country's fourth-largest wind energy producer after California, Texas, and Iowa, with 615 megawatts installed and 213 MW planned [1] (http://www.awea.org/projects/). Also part of Memphis in May is the FedEx St. Many farmers also now operate wind turbines to produce electricity, particularly in the windy southwest region. Each year, the city honors a foreign country, and each weekend hosts a special event, including the World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest and the Beale Street Music Festival. If production capacity meets the need, 2% biodiesel will be required in diesel fuel in 2005. The Mid-South Fair comes to the city every fall, and every May there is the Memphis in May.

state with such a mandate). There is Libertyland Amusement Park and the adjacent Liberty Bowl and Memphis Children's Museum, Mud Island, Detour Memphis - an art and performing space, Lichterman Nature Center, the Pink Palace Museum, The Pyramid, The Memphis Zoo, the Memphis Queen riverboat. A fair amount of ethanol alcohol fuel is produced in the state, and a 10% mix of ethanol into consumer gasoline has been mandated since 1997 (as of 2004, Minnesota is the only U.S. King used to play his guitar, and occasionally still appears at a club bearing his name and partly owned by him. Additionally, northern Minnesota is a source for iron ore and wood products, though these are both declining industries. Blues fans can head down to Beale Street, where a young B.B. A large proportion of the state's economy is still agricultural, even though only a small percentage of the population (around 2%) consider themselves to be farmers. Other famous musicians who got their start at Sun include Johnny Cash, Rufus Thomas, Charlie Rich, Howlin' Wolf, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

The largest shopping mall in the United States, the Mall of America, is located in Bloomington. Rock and roll is located in the city also. The city of Rochester is the headquarters of the Mayo Clinic, and has a significant manufacturing presence in International Business Machines. Sun studios was where Elvis first recorded "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". and Honeywell. Tourists come from all over the world to see Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. Bancorp, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (formerly Lutheran Brotherhood), Medtronic, Cray Computers, Imation, and a regional headquarters of Wells Fargo & Co., Caterpillar_Inc. Out of the total population, 30.1% of those under the age of 18 and 15.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

(formerly Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.), Northwest Airlines, Target Corporation, U.S. 20.6% of the population and 17.2% of families are below the poverty line. The Twin Cities are home to a diverse range of major businesses, including 3M Co. The per capita income for the city is $17,838. In general, salaries are lowest in more rural areas, particularly in the northwest portion of the state. Males have a median income of $31,236 versus $25,183 for females. The county averages range from $17,369 (Todd County) to $42,313 (Hennepin County, a portion of the Metro area). The median income for a household in the city is $32,285, and the median income for a family is $37,767.

Census Bureau). For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 84.9 males. The average household income in 1999 was approximately $48,000, ranking eighth in the nation (U.S. For every 100 females there are 89.8 males. Per capita personal income in 2003 was $34,031, 10^th in the nation. The median age is 32 years. The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that Minnesota's total state product in 2003 was $211 billion. In the city the population is spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 19.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.9% who are 65 years of age or older.

The average annual precipitation is 28.32 inches (719 mm), with a snowfall figure of 49.6 inches (126 cm). The average household size is 2.52 and the average family size is 3.18. The average temperature in January (the coldest month) is 11.2 °F (−11.5 °C), and the average in the warmest month of July is 73.1 °F (22.8 °C); averages are cooler in the north and warmer in the south. 30.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. A record high of 114 °F (45.5 °C) was reached in both 1917 and 1936. There are 250,721 households out of which 31.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.1% are married couples living together, 23.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% are non-families. Additionally, as part of the Great Plains region, the state also experiences warm summers. 2.97% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Surprisingly, due to the flows of the jet stream, parts of Alaska often see relatively warm temperatures when Minnesota is experiencing extreme cold. The racial makeup of the city is 34.41% White, 61.41% African American, 0.19% Native American, 1.46% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.45% from other races, and 1.04% from two or more races. The state is famously cold in the winters, with a record low of −60 °F (−51 °C) measured at Tower, MN on February 2, 1996. There are 271,552 housing units at an average density of 375.4/km² (972.2/mi²). Temperatures can reach extremes in Minnesota. The population density is 898.6/km² (2,327.4/mi²). The biggest event in the last century occurred near Morris in 1975 and rated between 4.6 and 4.8 in magnitude. As of the census² of 2000, there are 650,100 people, 250,721 households, and 158,455 families residing in the city.

Aside from a few very minor earthquakes, Minnesota is one of the most geologically-stable regions in the country. Slightly over 80% of office space in the city is occupied. The state's average elevation is 1,200 feet (366 m), with a high point at Eagle Mountain (2,301 ft or 701 m) and a low at the surface of Lake Superior (602 ft or 183 m). Memphis as a whole contains about twenty million square feet (2,000,000 m²) of office space, with the downtown area containing only around four million square feet (400,000 m²). Cloud, Mankato, Rochester (home of the world-famous Mayo Clinic), and Bloomington (home to the Mall of America). Memphis' Division of Light, Gas and Water ("MLGW") is one of the largest municipal utitilites in the United States. Other prominent cities include Duluth, St. Because of its status as the primary hub for FedEx, Memphis International Airport is currently the world's busiest cargo airport in terms of tonnage.

Together (and with surrounding suburbs), they are known as the Twin Cities. It is also the headquarters of FedEx shipping. Paul, which sits on the Mississippi River next to Minnesota's largest city, Minneapolis. Memphis is a center of manufacture of textiles, heating equipment, pianos, and automobile and truck parts. The capital is St. Public transportation in the Memphis area is provided by the Memphis Area Transit Authority (http://www.matatransit.com), which provides the area with buses and a downtown trolley system that is also in the process of expanding into a regional system. Traversing the state from southwest to northeast goes through the three different ecological regions. The future interstates of I-22 and I-69 are also planned to converge into the Memphis area.

Minnesota sits at a convergence point between three of the great biomes of North America: the Great Plains of the west, the Eastern Deciduous Forest, and the Northern Boreal Forest of Canada. The interstates of I-40 and I-55 (along with rail lines) cross the Mississippi at Memphis into the state of Arkansas. Minnesota is the northernmost of the 48 contiguous states (Alaska reaches significantly farther north), reaching to 49° 23' 04" north latitude, due to a small piece of the state known as the Northwest Angle. Interstate highways I-40, its spur highway I-240 and I-55 are the main freeways in the Memphis area. In addition, Minnesota shares a water boundary with Michigan. The Memphis metopolitan area encompasses the counties of Fayette, Tipton, and Shelby in Tennessee, DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, Tunica in Mississippi, and Crittenden in Arkansas. The state is bordered on the north by Canada (Manitoba and Ontario), on the east by Wisconsin and Lake Superior, on the south by Iowa, and on the west by North Dakota and South Dakota. Census.

Although the high-grade iron ore was mostly mined out during World War II, taconite is still mined across the Iron Range. The Memphis metropolitan area has a populuation of 1,195,977, according to the 2000 U.S. It is called the Iron Range because when discovered, it had some of the largest deposits of iron ore in the country. Memphis is the primary city of a metropolitan region including parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. This is a range of low mountains that run across the northern part of the state. Major Memphis parks include Tom Lee Park, Audubon Park, Overton Park and the Memphis Botanic Garden. After its rivers and lakes, Minnesota's most prominent physical feature is the Iron Range. The total area is 5.24% water.

Minnesota is home to many areas of park land, to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA), as well as a number of state and county parks, most notably Itasca State Park, the official source of the Mississippi River. 723.4 km² (279.3 mi²) of it is land and 40.0 km² (15.4 mi²) of it is water. The Minnesota portion of Lake Superior is the largest body of water in the state. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 763.4 km² (294.8 mi²). In addition, the Iron Range and other low mountains are found in the northeastern part of the state. Memphis is located at 35°7'3" North, 89°58'16" West (35.117365, -89.971068)¹. However, the extreme southeastern portion of the state is part of the Driftless Area, which was not glaciated, and it is here that Lake Pepin and the rugged high bluffs of the Mississippi River are found. See also: List of mayors of Memphis.

Much of the state is flat, having been eroded during repeated glacial periods (most recently the Wisconsin Glacier). There has been in recent years the idea thrown around of the potential of the merger of county government of Shelby County and City of Memphis into a metropolitan government similar to that in Nashville. It is famous for its lakes, having in excess of 15,000, depending on the source of the count. Herenton served for 12 years as the superintendent of Memphis City Schools. Minnesota covers 79,610 square miles (2.25% of the United States). Prior to his election, Dr. See: List of Minnesota counties. He was elected for the first time in 1991, when he became Memphis' first black mayor.

External links: Hyperlinked state constitution (http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/mncon/preamble.htm), full text of state constitution (http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/mncon/mncon.htm). Herenton is currently serving his fourth consecutive term as Mayor. See also: List of political parties in Minnesota. Dr. Some actions in the Twin Cities metropolitan area are coordinated by the Metropolitan Council, and many lakes and rivers are overseen by watershed districts and soil and water conservation districts. Herenton. In addition to the standard city and county levels of government found in the United States, Minnesota also has other entities that provide governmental oversight and planning. W.

Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.. W. Appeals beyond this level go to the U.S. The current mayor of Memphis is Dr. Louis, Missouri. This plan provides for nine districts, seven with one representative each and two districts with three representatives each. Minnesota is part of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is based in St. In 1995, the council adopted a new district plan which changed council positions to all districts.

Paul, or Duluth. The new city charter provided for the election of a mayor and thirteen council members, six elected at large from throughout the city and seven elected from geographic districts. Federal cases are heard in the federal district courts in Minneapolis, St. Since 1966, Memphis has been governed by the "weak mayor" form of mayor-council government. The state has two special courts created by state law as executive-branch agencies:. "Boss" Crump. Minnesota's court system has three levels:. H.

The Minnesota Senate is controlled by the DFL by five seats and there is one Independence Party state senator, former Republican Sheila Kiscaden (IP-Rochester) who seats with the DFL. From the 1910s to the 1950s, Memphis was a hotbed of machine politics under the direction of E. In the November 2004 election, the Republican Party retained control of the Minnesota House of Representatives by a single seat, having lost a total of 13 seats. In 1897, Memphis' pyramid-shaped pavilion was a conspicuous part of the Tennessee Centennial exposition. The state has 67 districts, each covering about 60,000 people. Each district has one senator and two representatives (each district being divided into A and B subsections). Senators serve for four years, and representatives serve for two years. A yellow fever epidemic in 1870 greatly reduced the population for many years thereafter. The Minnesota State Legislature is a bicameral body consisting of the Senate and House of Representatives. At the conclusion of the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces captured Memphis from Confederate control.

The full list of governors, and the dates they took office, is available at List of Governors of Minnesota. The city was founded in 1819 and incorporated as a city in 1826. He has a cabinet consisting of the leaders of various government agencies in the state. The French built Fort Prudhomme in the vicinity. The governor and lieutenant governor each have four-year terms. The Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, is believed to have visited what is now the Memphis area. The executive branch is headed by the Governor of Minnesota, currently Tim Pawlenty, a Republican, who started his term on January 6, 2003. Memphis was settled by the Chickasaw tribe.

Like the national government of the United States, power is divided into three main branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.
. Political conservatism is less strongly linked to church attendance in Minnesota than in other parts of the country, perhaps a reflection of the strong mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic following. Memphis is on the Lower Chickasaw Bluff above the Mississippi River, at the mouth of the Wolf River. state. King. presidential election, the highest of any U.S. B.

77.3% of Minnesotans voted in the 2004 U.S. Memphis was home to Elvis Presley and is home to B. Minnesota politics include such oddities as Professional wrestler turned Governors and protestors turned crowd-surfing mayors. The city is particularly known for blues music and barbecue. Minnesota is known for active yet quirky politics, with populism being a long-standing force among all of the political parties that call the state home. (This makes Memphis the largest city but second largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by Metropolitan Nashville). Environmentalism is shared by most state residents in one form or another, vegans and hunters alike. The greater Memphis metropolitan area had a population of 1,195,977.

Families frequently own or share cabins on central and northern tracts of land in forests and adjoining lakes, and weekend trips out to these properties are common. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 650,100 within the city limits, making it the largest city in the state of Tennessee, United States. Unique activities include ice fishing, which was popular with the early Scandinavian immigrants. Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, of which it is the county seat. Outdoor activities are major parts of the lives of many Minnesotans, including hunting and fishing. 35°7'3" N
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Mexicans are a growing force, as they are across the U.S.
650,100. Some Chinese and Japanese have had long presences in the state as well.
 - Total (2000). Modern immigrants have come from all over the world in recent decades, with Hmong, Somali, Vietnamese, Indians, Middle Easterners, and the former Soviet bloc all being well-represented.
. The Métis people, a mixed French and Native American culture, were a presence in the early state and territorial days, but largely moved north into Canada. Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin (Poet).

Native Americans have a moderate presence in Minnesota, and some tribes operate casinos which have been said to be among the most profitable in the country. The earliest European exploration and settlement was by the French, and settlement from Scandinavian countries along with Germany followed. William Eggleston (Author). However, many cultures are slowly mixing together in the state today. Shelby Foote (Author). Stereotypical Minnesotans are known for various attributes, including Lutheranism, "Minnesota nice", "hot dish", and sing-songy Scandinavian accents. Richard Halliburton (explorer and author). The eastern half of the territory of Minnesota became the country's 32nd state—after California—on May 11, 1858. Ric Flair (professional wrestling) was born in Memphis, but was adopted in infancy by a couple in the Twin Cities and grew up there.

Minnesota Territory was carved out of Iowa Territory on March 3, 1849, but it was not coextensive with the present state, since the area included what later became the territory of Dakota (which later still became the states of North Dakota and South Dakota). Jerry Lawler (professional wrestling)