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On Principles & Values: Minnesota Lutheran, a Midwestern cultural subtype

He does not often discuss his faith publicly but has posted about attending worship during Christmas and other services at various Lutheran churches. Walz refers to Pilgrim Lutheran Church in St. Paul--a congregation in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a mainline denomination--as "my parish."

Walz sometimes describes himself as a "Minnesota Lutheran," an identity he frames as a sort of Midwestern cultural subtype. "Because we're good Minnesota Lutherans, we have a rule: If you do something good and talk about it, it no longer counts," Walz said in April. "So what you have to do is to get someone else to talk about you."

The only previous vice president connected to the tradition was another Minnesotan, Hubert Humphrey, who was raised Lutheran but ended up attending a Methodist church.