Has tale of Twin Cities become one?

The Star Tribune recently published a good article titled "Has tale of Twin Cities become one?" by Jeff Strickler. Here is the main point of the article: 

Longtime arch rivals with distinct personalities, the Twin Cities are now showing signs that the walls dividing them are crumbling and that, as residents, we are increasingly seeing ourselves the way the rest of the world sees us: not as two individual cities but as a single metropolitan area.

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