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25. North Dakotans think they are independent thinkers.

Reply to Coyotl (Reply #19)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 08:38 AM

Nov 2012

And they can be. They don't like outsiders coming in and telling them what to do. Not at all. That hurt Berg.
North Dakota is a rural, Red state. But, ND is the only state to have a State run Mill & Elevator. Plus they are the only state to have a State run bank. It is political suicide to mess with either one. And yet you talk to them and Socialism is bad. Obamacare is Socialism and they don't want it.

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