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Wellstone ruled

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5. You are spot on.

Reply to moof (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 23, 2020, 11:01 AM

Oct 2020

Let's add this,the demise of the Farmers Union which was replaced by the Farm Bureau . The later being the number one Insurer of Rural America and the single largest Political Donor for the GOP.

Five decades of B to B sales and service in the Rural Midwest I watched this glacial effect happen. Reagan was the change agent. Propaganda works. And as the young people left the Farms and moved to the city,the rural Population median age jumped to the mid 50's causing a conservative lean.

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