1 little town, 2 starkly different realities: America’s warring visions play out in a Minnesota prairie town

A customer carries a box of baked goods from a bakery at sunrise in Benson, Minn., a small prairie town where two neighbors — in their own, well-kept, century-old homes — can live in vastly different worlds. | David Goldman / AP

BENSON, Minn. — The newspaper hit front porches in this wind-scarred prairie town in western Minnesota with this front-page headline:

“COVID-19 cases straining rural clinics, hospitals, staff.”