Land of many blondes

Today when Travis was driving me to work we passed two girls with straight blond hair. They were lightly make-uped, brightly dressed, and laughing and talking to each other.
I said, "Those girls look like Laestadian Lutherans!"
And Travis started laughing before I realized I'd said it.
Oops. Is that okay to say?
Maybe I should have said those girls look like Swedes (or Norwegians?)
Lutherans in Minnesota are like Mormons in Utah: They're everywhere.
There might be a few Catholics or Evangelists here or there (maybe even one lonely Mormon girl), but it's mostly Lutherans, and all different types of them.

Just like Minnesotans are descended from Swedes and Norwegians and Utahs are decended from Danes and Brits.
I was looking through my friends on facebook, trying to figure out if anyone from my high school besides me is married and saw first names like Ingrid, Lena, Linnea, Lindy, and an absurd amount of Anna's.
Lana used to say that everyone in Minnesota had CRAZY last names and I was always like "Yeah right, none of us have weird last names."
But two of my best friends were Krumholz and Abramoski.
And looking at facebook again I saw
Briesemeister
Groenke
Liska
Roushar
Tuchenhaggen
Haglund
Haggen
Ostvig
Olinger
Engle
Bongaarts
Lindborg
Herdklotz
Pulvermacher
Logas
Wulfenstein
Lenczewski
Schwietering

There are more but I have to give up. Because you don't want to read that list any more, you get the point.
I went from Froelich (very weird) to Pitcher (not weird).
But the extra amazing thing about looking through facebook was that most of my friends from Utah had last names like Brown, Williams, Welch, Stanley, Stokers, Jackson, Lee, Bingham, Pewitt.
Those are very normal names.

And I'll be honest.
I like the unpronouncability of our Midwestern names best.


p.s. haha, I just spell-checked this and NONE of the Utah names I listed popped up as misspelled and ALL of the Minnesota names did.