Minnesota is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest state in the U.S., and the 21st most populous with over five million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the 32nd state in 1858. Its image as a primarily white, Northern European, and Lutheran state still has some truth, but it is changing, with substantial influxes of African, Asian, and Hispanic immigrants joining the descendants of European immigrants and Native American descendants of the original inhabitants...