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She plans to introduce a bill to make purple the official state color.

Minnesota currently does not have an official state color.

"I don’t think the world will ever be lit up again with a single color in memory of an artist or person," Housley told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. "He was special, and he was ours. We should be proud."

Minnesota turned many landmarks purple the day Prince died.

The Minnesota Twins made its Twitter purple and lit up the stadium with purple lighting. The state's Department of Transportation lit the I-35W bridge purple for the weekend.

Also, a memorial outside of Prince's home was filled with purple balloons and flowers.

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Mathew Palmer, a former Delta Air Lines employee, at his home in Atlanta on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025.  Palmer was fired less than two weeks after writing a post on social media about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. (Natrice Miller/AJC)