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Politics are always a big issue, because government is a big issue. Here on the plains the people are very opinionated and set in their ways. In this lecture we looked at the political views, voting history, and some of the political groups that have formed.
Here on the plains the history of voting shows to always be conservative republican. I can see this because the people of the plains are normally old fashion and have strong beliefs. The Red party tends to follow more strict religious values and have old fashion (yet current) beliefs. All my life that is how my family has voted, and since they are my family we share the same values and such. Another trend shown to us is that we tend to send democrats to congress. Mr. Isern stated we send Democrats to congress so if they happen to make a tax they will tax the whole nation and we send republicans to state senate so they don't tax the state. I don't know too much about this kind of stuff, so I trust him on this. When he mentioned that North Dakota got a lot of federal spending money it made me pretty happy. It's good to hear that we are taking advantage of money they are giving us. Every year they create so many programs and such that give out money but no one ever hears about them. Well I guess North Dakota is on top of things.
It's funny to think that farmers are radicals in their own way. In the lecture it was mentioned that the plains has a history of radicalism. It made me laugh when he started explaining some of the things that they have done. When I think about it, we aren't radical we just don't take no for an answer. Our methods are a little bit louder than others because no one thinks that plains people would ever do something radical.
We then went into some of the organizations that have been formed on the plains that became political. Some of them have made some good things happen in the government and then others either never got into the government or made some legislature that never worked. For being seen as dumb by other parts of the states, the people on the plains have it all together. History shows they are underestimated and shouldn't be taken light heartily.
Then there was Gordon Call. A man that never paid taxes, went to prison, got out on a condition and broke it. He escapes the long arm of the law and hides out. When they finally find him and go to get him they make huge mistakes. The Federal Marshals knew that he was always armed and he wasn't going to go willingly. But they stopped him on the middle of a road and of course he gets out shooting. His kid gets shot and Call leaves him on the side of the road and takes off. They track Call to Arkansas, in the process of smoking him out the blow up the house and Call. Funny how that works out. I think it's probably one of the funniest wild goose chases the federal government has done.