re: #445 dangerman

If D’s don’t want to live in a particular lightly populated state, that’s what’s gonna happen

That’s not what is happening though.

The conversion of rural areas to solid Republican areas is an old movement in America that goes back to FDR, when the rural Republicans were his opposition.

Also, the very fact that the Dakota territory was split in two is something to note, as it harkens back to the days when states were created explicitly to manipulate elections and balance of power in the US.

Retrospectively I think that was a very immoral thing to do. It was based on the idea that the indigenous population did not matter, that the only thing that mattered was a great land grab across this continent.

So we are stuck with the fruits of 19th century imperialism.