In Nebraska towns where VP candidate Tim Walz grew up, local reaction to him is mixed [Video]

BUTTE, Neb. — Scott Nicolaus held up two reporters’ business cards sitting near the cash register at Firehouse Bakery and Cafe.

One card was from the Minnesota Star Tribune. The other, the Los Angeles Times. 

These days, Barb and Scott Nicolaus never know which reporter will walk through the door of their Butte, Nebraska, cafe next. One of the first reporters was from the New York Times, and they keep arriving from outlets big and small from all around the world.

When the phone rings, it could be someone ordering bread or someone from NBC News.

The town of 286 people near the South Dakota border in northeast Nebraska was thrust into the international spotlight by one of its former residents: Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

“It put us on the map,” Barb said.

Butte got a shoutout last week when Walz took the stage at the Democratic National Convention.

“I grew up in Butte, …