Gretchen Whitmer: “Michigan's really a diverse, the most diverse of Midwest…”

“People are always, why do you have such a huge Arab population in Michigan? Like, you have this big Dutch population on the west side or Finns in the Upper Peninsula. Like, Michigan's really a diverse, the most diverse of Midwest states. And it is because people came. You get a good job on the line at Ford or GM and afford to buy like a place up north on a lake and have your house in Detroit.” (12:18–12:24)

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