New York Times celebrates Willmar as a model for rural America's future

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Thomas Friedman remembers the Willmar his aunt and uncle called home. The couple moved to the largely “white, Lutheran, Scandinavian town” in 1949, and for decades, he paid them regular visits. He remembers one visit in particular, about 40 years ago, when his aunt told him confidentially that she’d been at the grocery store one day and heard someone speaking Spanish.

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