I’ve had to translate Minnesota Nice for West Coast peeps.
“That went rather well. He wasn’t as angry as I expected.”
“Oh, that was Minnesota Nice. Translated to standard American vernacular, he told you to piss up a rope and do something anatomically impossible with a muskellunge.”
Also one of the frustrations with the Greater Idaho movement. WTF do they mean “we aren’t being represented!?!” Burns school district gets $150,000 per student in state funding while Portland gets about $5000.