ND was the start of the Non Partisan League, which is pretty much the closest thing America has had to a mass appeal anti-elite agrarian socialist movement.
It survives in the repealed death penalty (California still has one), the nationalised bank and grain elevator, the ban on corporate farming etc.
Sorry, I just have a lot of love for the state of North Dakota. I still love California! (Well, more NorCal that SoCal; I don't think humans should live in deserts, it's against nature)
Take it from someone who actually lived there, it sounds a lot better on paper with your descriptions then it ends up being. 
The sheer isolation and emptiness is a much bigger issue than you think. Driving from Fargo to Bismarck in the dead of winter and arriving after midnight makes it feel like Bismarck might as well be some sort of colony a different planet considering how barren it before it, I know that actually sounds cool, but then try LIVING there instead of just visiting...
This, from somebody who extolled the virtues of living in Fargo?
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