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Every November, Wisconsin ceases to be a red state or a blue state and instead becomes a blaze orange one. That is the color donned by hunters, 650,000 of whom bought licenses to participate in the state's rifle-deer-hunting season, which begins the Saturday before Thanksgiving. As much as that holiday and Christmas, the nine-day season is a time when families and friends gather. In the woods, men, women and children all join in, and a child's first excursion is often viewed as a rite nearly as solemn as First Communion. But this year...
...them to help fight communists in Laos. But when that country fell in 1975, the U.S., out of gratitude, allowed Hmong to immigrate to America, and they settled primarily in the upper Midwest at the invitation of religious groups offering to sponsor them. Today 46,000 Hmong live in Wisconsin and 60,000 in Minnesota. St. Paul, home to 24,000 Hmong, has the highest concentration in the U.S. Over the years, they have established themselves as hardworking, middle-class business owners, their stores helping gentrify the once dilapidated University Avenue in St. Paul. They have gained seats on school...
Even if someone took a shot at Vang, his reaction was wildly out of proportion, and Hmong in Minnesota and Wisconsin are concerned that the racial animosity stirred up will undo years of hard work. At a press conference in St. Paul last week, community leaders tried to distance themselves from Vang and announced that they were starting a fund for the victims' families. Fearing a backlash, Joe Bee Xiong, director of the Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association, has suggested that Hmong hunters stay home for the rest of the season...
...however, that tensions had already been on the rise. In June 15,000 Hmong, recently cleared by the State Department to enter the U.S. from a refugee camp in Thailand, began arriving in the U.S. Of those, 5,000 are expected to move to Minnesota and 3,500 to Wisconsin, where they will be eligible for welfare at a time when the job market and state budgets are tight. For the families of the victims, the economy is the least of their woes. The entire close-knit community is reeling from the loss, and hundreds are turning...
...British import, about the treatment of detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba--have built compelling drama out of real-life interviews and transcripts, while such anti-Bush works as Sam Shepard's new The God of Hell, a caustic parable about a nefarious government agent terrorizing a Wisconsin farm couple, give off the sparks of real political anger. By comparison, the polite, political-science-class dramatics of Democracy seem as outmoded as the Berlin Wall. --By Richard Zoglin