Editing Minneapolis–Saint Paul (section)

=== Socioeconomic history ===
Like many Northern cities that grew up with the [[Industrial Revolution]], Minneapolis and St. Paul experienced shifts in their economic base as heavy industry declined, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. With the economic decline of those decades came population decline in the [[Demographics of Minneapolis|central city areas]], [[white flight]] to suburbs,<ref>{{cite book |chapter=It Couldn't Happen Here... |title=Metropolitics : a regional agenda for community and stability | first=Myron Jr. |last=Orfield |isbn=0-8157-6640-8 |location=Washington DC |publisher=Brookings Institution |year=1997 |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/metropoliticsreg00orfi/page/n20 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/metropoliticsreg00orfi }}</ref> and, in the summer of 1967, [[race riots]] on Minneapolis's North Side.<ref>{{cite news |last=Neset |first=Ray |title=Plymouth Avenue 40 Years Later |date=July 20, 2007 |url=http://mplsmirror.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=1 |url-status = usurped|newspaper=Minneapolis Mirror |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109122142/http://mplsmirror.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=1 |archive-date=9 January 2009 |access-date=2 May 2019}}</ref> But by the 1980s and 1990s, Minneapolis and Saint Paul were often cited as former [[Rust Belt]] cities that had made successful transitions to service, high-technology, finance, and information economies.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=A Tale of Twin Cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul |last1=Abercrombie |first1=Thomas J. |last2=Griffiths |first2=Annie |magazine=National Geographic |date=November 1980 |volume=156 |number=5 |pages=664–691 }}</ref>

In May and June 2020, the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area became a focus of international attention after [[Minneapolis Police Department|MPD]] officer [[Derek Chauvin]] murdered [[George Floyd]] by kneeling on his neck for almost ten minutes. The murder sparked [[George Floyd protests in Minneapolis–Saint Paul|local]], [[List of George Floyd protests in the United States|nationwide]] and [[List of George Floyd protests outside the United States|international protests]] against racism and police brutality, bringing considerable attention to the MPD.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Scheiber|first1=Noam|last2=Stockman|first2=Farah|last3=Goodman|first3=J. David|date=2020-06-06|title=How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapolis-kroll.html|access-date=2020-06-07|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Minneapolis–Saint Paul was the site of the second-costliest act of civil disobedience in U.S. history, after the [[1992 Los Angeles riots|1992 Los Angeles Riots]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=St. Paul rebuilding efforts inch along after civil unrest|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/08/14/st-paul-rebuilding-efforts-inch-along-after-may-civil-unrest|access-date=2021-12-10|website=MPR News|date=August 14, 2020 }}</ref> Local protests and riots caused an estimated $550 million in damages<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tribune|first=Neal St Anthony Star|title=Minneapolis Foundation raising $20 million for riot-hurt small businesses|url=https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-foundation-raising-20-million-to-rebuild-small-businesses-hurt-in-2020-riots/600058520/|access-date=2021-11-29|website=Star Tribune|date=May 18, 2021 }}</ref> and affected around 1,600 businesses.<ref>{{Cite web|title=St. Paul rebuilding efforts inch along after civil unrest|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/08/14/st-paul-rebuilding-efforts-inch-along-after-may-civil-unrest|access-date=2021-11-29|website=MPR News|date=August 14, 2020 }}</ref>