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Shell_Seas

(3,326 posts) Fri May 29, 2020, 09:48 AM May 2020

Can someone explain to me the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party?

I was reading the county prosecutor from yesterday's press conference, who is the one in charge of bringing charges against the Minneapolis cops who killed George Floyd is in that party; as is Amy Klobuchar.

Are they centrists?

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Can someone explain to me the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party? (Original Post) Shell_Seas May 2020 OP

During the Great Depression, the (left) Farmer Labor party was very successful in Minnesota fishwax May 2020 #1

The DFL is the Democratic Party in Minnesota. LiberalBrooke May 2020 #2

I'm not saying this to be snarky - I would encourage you to google it, simply because it has an scarletwoman May 2020 #3

fishwax

(29,148 posts)

1. During the Great Depression, the (left) Farmer Labor party was very successful in Minnesota

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Fri May 29, 2020, 09:52 AM

May 2020

They managed to win elections for governor and U.S. Senate, among others, as a third-party option. In 1944, the state Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor party merged, forming the DFL party. So it now runs the spectrum from moderates to progressives, but it is a vestige of the power of left-wing politics in the state in the first half of the century.

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More info on the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party.

LiberalBrooke

(527 posts)

2. The DFL is the Democratic Party in Minnesota.

Reply to Shell_Seas (Original post)

Fri May 29, 2020, 09:53 AM

May 2020

50 years or so ago the Democratic Party and the Farmer/Labor parties merged in Minnesota.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)

3. I'm not saying this to be snarky - I would encourage you to google it, simply because it has an