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In Lecture 10 "Fire on the Ice" we talked about politics. We started talking about how the great plains usually and recently vote towards, and that is mostly conservative. Like in the recent Presidential election the great plains was mostly conservative voting for McCain. Then we discussed why the great plains usually votes towards the conservative side, and that is because we are all about farming and agriculture. But the weird thing that we in North Dakota keep sending Democrats to Washington. That is because this guys understand the farming and agriculture needs. They also get us federal spending on Agriculture and military. North Dakota is number one in federal spending, this I found really cool because it really puts us on the map. When I usually take trips for baseball or hockey teams and we go down South or East it seems that most people never heard of Fargo let alone North Dakota. So, this federal spending thing actually puts use on the map and its something we should pride on. Well we went on talking about the 3rd parties and how one almost became the actually third party. If I remember right it was the socialism party, it really got me think, if they became popular how would the U.S. be today with 3 parties. In this lecture we also talked about the farmer's alliance, the American Agriculture movement, and the Farmer's Union. In this lecture we talked about how the politics changed and how they relate to the great plains.

Matthew Lee