PRINCE: DIRTY MIND OR COLOR BLIND?
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota: white. White is everywhere. The ground is white from October 'til April. Street after street strolls without hurry between rows of big old family houses, pointed white. The area's largest "ethnic group" is Scandinavian, so the white people in Minneapolis/St. Paul hope fairly white skin and fairly light hit which turns white in the summer.
PRINCE: DIRTY MIND OR COLOR BLIND?
LAURA FISSINGER
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota: white.
White is everywhere. The ground is white from October 'til April. Street after street strolls without hurry between rows of big old family houses, pointed white. The area's largest "ethnic group" is Scandinavian, so the white people in Minneapolis/St. Paul hope fairly white skin and fairly light hit which turns white in the summer. One Minneapolis suburb hosts America's oldest shopping center, replete with its miles of shiny white corridors. Its very famous American rep theatre does the big plays of western white culture for well-to-do white audiences. And these people buy a lot of white clothing, because the Twin Cities are so dirt-free. By and large, what starts out white stays white—and people by and large like it that way.