Now that North and South Korea are coming together. Isn't it time for North and South Dakota to do

[Yavin4]

the same? Come on. Let's have just one Dakota, and no, Dakota Fanning does not count.

[jberryhill]

1. How would South Dakotans absorb all those brainwashed and impoverished North Dakotans

[Yavin4]

2. Funny. North Dakota says the same thing about South Dakota. n/t

[jberryhill]

3. They've simply become incompatible cultures through decades of isolation between them

[Yavin4]

4. They both love country music and live in fear of non-White people

How are they incompatible?

[jberryhill]

6. Wait, I thought...

...South Dakota has all those young DPOP girl bands and boy bands that the kids are all into....??

[krispos42]

5. Really, they should be East and West Dakota.

The east sides of both states are mostly farming and the west sides are more ranching.

Ah well.

[fizzgig]

10. i moved to western sd last summer

a friend of mine always forgets where i moved and has just resorted to asking how west dakota is

[krispos42]

12. I used to live in Huron :-)

[Chipper Chat]

7. Hey Dakota -

Come Together, right now,
Over Nebraska.

[Ptah]

8. Finally,no more North Dakota winters!

[Thunderbeast]

9. Add Wyoming and Montana to the Dakotas

and you would have one medium-sized state by population.

A combined population of 3.1 Million would still rank 31st. The six available Senators could be distributed to partitioned California, Texas, and Florida or New York.

Looking forward, however, Florida will be much smaller when the southern shoreline moves to Jacksonville.

[jmowreader]

13. If you MUST partition California, make it three states

State 1: Los Angeles to the Mexican border
State 2: the San Francisco Bay area
State 3: the rest of the state, where the Republicans are

[SCantiGOP]

11. I recall that Newfoundland wanted Quebec to secede from Canada

That way they would be four hours closer to Toronto.

[ashling]

14. If the entire population of South Dakota moved to North Dakota

it would improve the IQ of both states .... and vice versa

[mnhtnbb]

15. The Dakota state was separated into North and South

In the 1800's to increase representation in the U S Congress for small farming communities. States did nothing to help farmers devastated by drought or hordes of locusts. People were starving. Settlement was encouraged to farm in areas that destroyed the ecosystem of the Great Plains and then nothing was done to alleviate suffering of families who had been duped into believing they could make a living from farming.

I have been reading the biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder that was published last year and it is full of fascinating history of the period and the areas of Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakota's, Missouri, where she lived. I hadn't finished it when it was due back at the library and couldn't renew because of holds. I'm going to get on the hold list and get it out again so I can finish it when I'll have time to devote to reading it.

It was a political decision to take advantage of the government system to divide Dakota into North and South. Who knew?