• @bufordt@sh.itjust.works
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    26 months ago

    I’m going to have to press (x) to doubt. They have voted republican in every election since 1964. The only time the Republican candidate has gotten less than 50% of the vote during those years was when Ross Perot was splitting the Republican vote.

    Maybe if you’re going back past when the parties switched ideologies.

    Fargo can be progressive, I know many of the bars there have historically been pretty LGBTQ friendly, but the rest of NoDak hasn’t as been progressive.

    • @CptOblivius@lemmy.world
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      16 months ago

      We have a state bank, mill, highly subsidized education system, legacy fund, one of the most progressive prison systems, etc. The state is still full of coops and unions Alot of this is left over from the NPL days. You need to go back further. We also had democrats in the house and senate for decades. You are looking way too superficially. Things are completely different now.

      • @bufordt@sh.itjust.works
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        16 months ago

        All that was over 60 years ago. Double your original Few Decades comment. North Dakota has been conservative for quite some time now.

        Although in 1920 the age of consent was 18 in both North Dakota and Minnesota, or we could go back to 1880 when the age of consent was 10 (so wrong) in both North Dakota and Minnesota. /jk

      • @CptOblivius@lemmy.world
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        16 months ago

        All? Some of that originated 60 years ago but is still going. The prison systems are newer, education subsidies are newer, the house and senate seats are newer, the legacy fund is newer…