state by state speak your mind about...north dakota

[Volaris]

14. my dads family is from there, and I lived there when I was a kid..

in the eastern part of the state, 20 or so miles south of Grand Forks (in the Red River Valley).

Its beautiful there, very few people, a lot of them seem educated beyond what one would expect for such a rural area. My experience of the place politically is that its not called socialism, its called a Co-Op, has existed in some form since BEFORE the New Deal, and even if you're an idiot 'bagger, you think they are kinda a good idea. (but make no mistake, there ARE idiot 'Baggers up there)...

I live in MO now, and I miss the northern Prairie. The last time I was there to visit my grandmother I brought back a glass Mason jar of average farm dirt. Its blacker than potting soil.

ND was one of the only States to not be hit REALLY hard by the Recession, due mainly to the fact that the Oil and Gas industry has been keeping people employed, and bringing on new workers, and the fact the PUBLICLY OWNED State Bank took steps to mitigate their risk, and so they got stuck with a much smaller bag then they could have had they been a little bit dumber and a lot more privately managed.(or so says my Grandmother, anyway...=))
There's more, but its been a long weekend...

(ON EDIT) LOVE the dig about North Dakota NOT actually being Winterfell, thanks for that, it made me smile.