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Originally Posted by Chef

I have no problem understanding the question the op is asking. It is fairly straightforward.

The places I've spent the most time in my life are upstate NY, the Twin Cities, Chicago, rural Indiana, Savannah and south Florida. The Twin Cities are by far the least hierarchical place I've been, it is part of what drew me to it. Upstate NY, Savannah and south Florida are all fairly elitist. Chicago and Indiana were kind of in the middle. Upstate NY is less elitist than downstate but still everyone from the top tier of society put those stupid college decals in their cars when I was growing up just to show off that their kids were in college or that they were going to an elite one. I don't know if people still do that. Minnesotans never did that, people would think that it was a crass way of showing off.

Minnesota has a sort of quasi-social democratic political culture, the name of the state Democratic Party - the Democratic-Farmer Labor Party (DFL) reflects that.