Could Minnesota be a swing state in 2016?

Minnesota.

For reasons unknown to me, myself and God, we're known for being some liberal bastion where there's college kids running around being college kids and vegans eating some French dirt on a plate. While some of that is true, the socially liberal is mostly just Minneapolis in the center of the state.

It is the bastard child of some homosexual Brooklyn neighborhood and Berkeley, CA baptized in a Lutheran church and left to die in the Midwestern winter. Au anglais? It's kind of a liberal stronghold, alone in the state.

I mean, sure, you have the inner-ring suburbs with their poverty and fifties houses that economically, would vote Democrat - hence why DC has carried the Democrat vote in astounding numbers each and every election. [Did any other place in the nation get almost 93% of ONE VOTE?] That's fine. Really, it is. Some aspects of economic liberalism that border on Keynesian are not that bad.

But Minneapolis shouldn't shape the state. People move out of the city, get married and have kids. All those wonderful things. Sometimes, these people will move out of the city into some postwar neighborhood. Some areas of St. Anthony and Brooklyn Center, both inner-ring suburbs are an example of this.

Other times, however, people look at new developments that pop up outside the Metro in places like Sherburne or Wright counties - cities like St. Michael, Elk River or Big Lake, and take their kids there because it's far from the city, you get lots of space and good schools. This phenomenon has been happening really frequently as the previous generation moves, making the suburbs more populous and swinging them to the right.

It's logical. I mean, people often combine incomes to afford houses like these and liberal economics would want that money in higher tax cuts, for starters. Second of all, moral/religious values. Your standard Minnesota Lutheran may admonish me and scold me in an email for this, but I'm coming out with it:

Religion naturally lends itself to conservatism. 

A lot of these people were raised Catholic, or Lutheran and naturally find themselves attracted to conservative social values.

With all that, I think it's possible that MN goes battleground in 2 years. It's very possible and maybe even inevitable. Could Minnesota join its neighbor to the Northwest in voting red? Yes, please.