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The Star Tribune news staff (Nov. 8) declares that “Tim Walz’s victory over Jeff Johnson was remarkable in scale and breadth,” accompanied by a map showing most of Minnesota in red. Reality is that those of us in rural Minnesota have to live by the political wishes of those in urban Minnesota. I get it, but don’t have to like it. South Dakota is looking better every day.

Chad Hagen, Sleepy Eye, Minn.

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In reality, people from the Dakotas and Iowa and Wisconsin move to Minnesota because it is a better place to live. Once here, however, they want to destroy what makes this an attractive place by cutting taxes and limiting funding. The former speaker of the House was one of them.