The Great Census War: Ghost Registries and the Battle for the Twin Cities
On August 11, 1890, federal agents descended on Minneapolis and St. Paul to halt the first major criminal census fraud prosecution in American history. From graveyard name-copying to midnight raids and burlap sacks of fake schedules, discover how a constitutional tally became an economic weapon between two bitter rivals.
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