Thanks, KarenJ2. Your insight led me to solve my situation. Here it is:
I itemized on the Federal for the best result. When that pulled into the MN state return it populated schedule M1SA (MN itemized deduction).
In MN you can get partial credit for charitable contributions (Schedule M1M line 20) if the total contributions are greater then $500 and you are taking the standard deduction.
In my case: Standard Deduction + Schedule M1M was greater than Itemized Deduction (Schedule M1SA).
So, we took Itemized deduction on the Federal and Standard deduction on the state. TurboTax automatically itemized both, which isn’t the most advantageous result.
