Iron Range

The Iron Range is collectively or individually a number of elongated iron-ore mining districts around Lake Superior in the United States and Canada.

[9] William Austin Burt discovered iron ore in the Marquette Range near Negaunee, Michigan in 1844.

This northern Minnesota accent is still present in the area, especially among older people; hence the popular nickname "da Range".

Bob Dylan, who grew up in Hibbing,[14] memorialized the Iron Range in the 1963 song "North Country Blues", a lament portraying hard times in the region.

Presented in his 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin', it includes such lines as: The Iron Range cuisine is known for Cornish pasties stuffed with a combination of beef, rutabaga, onion, carrots, and potatoes.

[16] Slovenian and Croatian immigrants brought the honey-nut bread potica to the Iron Range; it is still served on Easter and Christmas in northern Minnesota.

[18] In 2022, Hockeyland, a documentary focusing on high school hockey in the Iron Range and Duluth area was released.

[19][20] The area has remained a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party stronghold despite its predominantly white and rural population because of its history of a largely unionized workforce in the mining industry, the mainstay of the economy of the Iron Range.

[22][23] In the 2022 midterm elections, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party lost more ground on the Iron Range, with Republican candidates running for lower-profile statewide offices flipping Carlton County.