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Minnesota Civic Health Index 2009

November 2, 2009

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1 Nina Archabal, Introduction to Minnesota Real and Imagined: Essays on the State and Its Culture, Ed. Stephen R. Graubard (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001), p. ix.
2 Ben Golnik interview with Harry Boyte, Minneapolis (by phone), September 4, 2009.
3 Jeff Blodgett interview with Harry Boyte, Minneapolis (by phone) September 4, 2009.
4 Kolderie, speech to the St. Paul Skylight Club, January 18, 2006; quoted from p. 2.
5 Timothy DenHerder-Thomas interview with Harry Boyte, St. Paul, June 5, 2007.
6 WPA Guide to Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1938, 1983), p. 7.
7 This account is largely taken from “The United States Senate Election in Minnesota,” Wikipedia accessed September 3, 2009.
8 Ibid. 11.
9 St. Paul Pioneer Press commemorating statehood, December 31, 1933 special issue.
10 WPA Guide to Minnesota (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1938, 1983), pp. 77-78; Swede quoted from William E. Lass, Minnesota: A History Second Edition (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998), p. 143.
11 Hubert Humphrey, Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics (Garden City: Doubleday, 1976), p. 8.
12 In the 2007 Civic Health Index, 23% of respondents to a nationally representative survey said that they had been “involved in a meeting (either face-to-face or online) to determine ideas and solutions for problems in your community.” About 20% of the whole sample had been in meetings that “included people with views different from my own.” Only 43% said they had “a place to go to talk about issues affecting your community.” Several recent studies argue that Americans are averse to controversy and tend to avoid voluntary opportunities to exchange ideas with people who are different from themselves [Eliasoph, Nina (1998). Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.; Hibbing, John R. & Theiss-Morse, Elizabeth (2002). Stealth
Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs About How Government Should Work. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.; Mutz, Diana C. (2006). Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative Versus Participatory Democracy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.]
13 Walter Mondale, The Changing Shape of Minnesota (Minneapolis: Humphrey Institute, 2003).
14 House meeting at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus, September 19, 2005.
15 Email communication from Sally Wiley, October 23, 2005, to Harry Boyte.
16 East African Circle, November 14, 2005; comments from author’s direct obervation of Somali student quoted from student forum, November 10, 2005, University of Minnesota Leadership Minor class.
17 Peg Chemberlin, prepared remarks, House meeting with state legislators, May 11, 2006, Minnesota State Capitol.
18 David Mathews, “Public-Government/Public-Schools,” National Civic Review 85, no. 3 (Fall 1996): 15; Peter Levine, The Future of Democracy: Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens (Boston: Tufts University Press, 2007), 110.
19 Report of the Time, Learning, and After School Task Force, A New Day for Learning 2007, available on web at http://www. edutopia.org/files/existing/pdfs/ANewDayforLearning.pdf September 9, 2009
20 Quotes from Cultural Wellness Center site, http://www.ppcwc.org/about_us , accessed February 2, 2008.

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