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NOVA Green
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« on: October 25, 2016, 12:09:15 AM »

Actually not too surprised considering that 30% of the population is based in Minnehaha County that actually voted narrowly for Obama in '08, and is one the top 50 most rapidly growing counties in the US.

Had some friends from Sioux Falls back in the days that moved to Southern Oregon, and not surprised that this part of the state is swing hard against Trump.

The Eastern part of the state is also heavily dominated by ethnic Germans and Scandinavians that are generally moderate and pragmatic on both domestic and foreign policy items, and decry extremism with a collective memory of the Anti-German hysteria of the WW I and WW II era where newspapers were banned and people were rounded up and considered foreign sympathizers for no reason other than their ethnicity and country of origin.

Western part of the state is obviously the most Republican, dominated more by larger ranching and dairy interests, along with massive resentment against the "unequal Rights that Native Americans enjoy". Hopefully I'm wrong on that, and maybe some of our friends on the forum can straighten out the history of the Lakota Sioux and Wounded Knee, and why that part of the state has become so overwhelmingly Republican.
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NOVA Green
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2016, 12:41:41 AM »
« Edited: October 25, 2016, 12:44:20 AM by NOVA Green »

Trump is more than likely to hold it baring and absolute collapse, but regardless there is still a strong collective memory that goes back to the days of the Farmer Co-Ops in the Eastern part of the state, the New Deal that married both the interests of agricultural producers and urban consumers within a collective national history of the "Great Generation".

A generation that both defeated Nazism and Fascism in Europe and Asia, while simultaneously protecting the interests of rural producers and urban consumers during the Great Depression.

These memories are not yet forgotten in rural parts of America, including South Dakota.... and here is a song from Alabama back in the days that even calls out props for Kansas Wheatfield farmers, as one of the classic working-class anthems from the 1980s.

"Forty Hour Week for a Living"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-G2J3RzURA
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