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The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis is divorced from the downtown area by a tangle of highway overpasses, and as it turns out, it’s the perfect place for Somali immigrants in Minnesota to create an enclave that is much more Somali than American.

On the main drag, you can see the skeletal remains of shuttered non-Somali businesses, such as the aptly named Midwest Mountaineering, an outerwear supplier that had stood in the location since 1970. Every newly opened business is Somali.

Block by block, under the steady gaze of the 1970s brutalist Riverside towers, now populated mostly by Somalis, the neighborhood is losing its old identity and transforming into something that looks more like Africa than Minnesota, aside from the snow, of course.

INSIDE ‘LITTLE MOGADISHU’: MINNESOTA’S BELEAGUERED SOMALI COMMUNITY UNDER A CLOUD OF FRAUD AND TRUMP ATTACKS

This is not new in America. Immigrant groups have long come to our nation and chosen to live in isolation with their own customs. The difference here is that the Somali community in Minnesota is also seeking, and gaining, political power — not just in their neighborhood, but also across the state and even the federal government.

A view of a high-rise building in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis on December 9, 2025. Block by block, under the steady gaze of the 1970s brutalist Riverside towers, now populated mostly by Somalis, the neighborhood is losing its old identity and transforming into something that looks more like Africa than Minnesota, aside from the snow, of course. (Fox News)

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