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Lecture 10, "Fire on the Ice," discussed the politics of the Great Plains. The current 2008 election was discussed as well as the history of politics on the Plains. Party selection from the people throughout the area is very interesting. I have never been known to analyze politics much. However I can realize there is a difference of opinion throughout the plains in comparison to the rest of the country. In the recent election much of the plains went Republican. Isern made a point that throughout time elections can be analyzed and plains people sending the Democrats to Washington and keeping the Republicans in the state. This can be looked at in many different ways. It could be the Republican voters trying to influence the rest of the state by spoiling them with Democrats. In earlier times there has been a history of radical views throughout the Great Plains. A Farmer's Alliance was created named the "National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry" with a sort of socialist view on things with radical ideas. A man by the last name of Kraenzel, stated that there was dependency on the plains to the local metropolis. Isern's prediction is that politics will remain split and random. People seem to have a "chip on their shoulders" for a continuous disadvantage on the plains. I see this in everyday life. However it is not always learned by personal experience, it is learned by the people whom surround us and influence our ideas subconsciously.