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True but not as large as Movies would have you believe. Although the State has a 1/3 Norwegian Population it seems to be localized in the Red River Valley and Minot.
I see more influence from pre-Socialist Russian Germans
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Scandinavian
Immigrants came to North Dakota from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Most settled in east and north-central North Dakota, along the main line of the Great Northern Railroad, beginning in the 1870s. Today, 193,000 people of Norwegian heritage live in North Dakota. About 38% of the state's population is of Scandinavian descent, with about 33% being Norwegian. The continent's largest Scandinavian event, Norsk Hostfest, is celebrated each fall in Minot.
German
Many people of German descent came from Russia in the 1880s and settled in south-central North Dakota. Many left for a variety of political and social reasons, with half of the German immigrants coming from Russia and the other half coming directly from Germany to the United States. The land they settled on was semi-arid and similar to that of the steppe in Russia and they used it for pasture and to grow small-grain crops, living in sod houses, similar to "semeljankas" in Russia. North Dakotans from German or Germans from Russia descent total about 43%.
It should be noted that the demographics have changed somewhat in the past 5 years with the "Oil Boom" The Population has grown nearly 20% in the few years I have been here.
This state tends to be a solid red, heavy-duty Republican stronghold. Is the populace socialist? They seem to vote for the free-market-favoring Republicans a whole lot more than they vote for the Democrats, so what do you think?
This state tends to be a solid red, heavy-duty Republican stronghold. Is the populace socialist? They seem to vote for the free-market-favoring Republicans a whole lot more than they vote for the Democrats, so what do you think?
One interesting fact about ND - it is the only state in the USA where there is a bank that is owned and run by the state government. Don't take my word for it, it shows up on their web home page: Bank of North Dakota
If you mean the only good Republicans rant daily about illegal immigrants and kowtow to Fox News celebrities, I guess they would be RINOs. Hannity needed to blab at the Bakken oil conference far more than the Bakken conference needed Hannity.
Republicans in ND run the gambit from Libertarian up to Constitution Party. There are not many "country club" Republicans because ND's wealth is largely coming from Ag and Energy sectors, not Grandpa's factory or trust fund. Most GOP leaders got where they are by working small town politics and going up the ladder. The Dem's power base has always been Fargo and Grand Forks as they are college towns on the border with leftist Minnesota. The DNC isn't going to win many state-wide elections during the boom. The national DNC has too many anti-energy, anti-gun, and anti-development news for state candidates to overcome. Heitkamp's election win was more about her opponent's lack of character than her stump speeches. I think she will last one term and get voted out for having to vote the party line too many times in Washington.
If you mean the only good Republicans rant daily about illegal immigrants and kowtow to Fox News celebrities, I guess they would be RINOs. Hannity needed to blab at the Bakken oil conference far more than the Bakken conference needed Hannity.
Republicans in ND run the gambit from Libertarian up to Constitution Party. There are not many "country club" Republicans because ND's wealth is largely coming from Ag and Energy sectors, not Grandpa's factory or trust fund. Most GOP leaders got where they are by working small town politics and going up the ladder. The Dem's power base has always been Fargo and Grand Forks as they are college towns on the border with leftist Minnesota. The DNC isn't going to win many state-wide elections during the boom. The national DNC has too many anti-energy, anti-gun, and anti-development news for state candidates to overcome. Heitkamp's election win was more about her opponent's lack of character than her stump speeches. I think she will last one term and get voted out for having to vote the party line too many times in Washington.
No, I mean they love to tax and spend. They are far from being fiscally conservative.
In Saskatchewan, purchasing co-operatives, credit unions, and commodity pools were concepts synonymous with socialist (and I mean, actual socialism. Google Tommy Douglas and the CCF,) governments of the past decades, yet I see these kinds of things all over North Dakota. I can tell that North Dakotans definitely seem far more religiously conservative than the average person up here, but do you feel that North Dakotans are truly politically conservative?
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