# Why did North Dakota try to secede in the '30s?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 6, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-north-dakota-try-to-secede-in-the-30s/39898 "2000-11-06T03:31:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-north-dakota-try-to-secede-in-the-30s/39898/41 "2011-12-20T15:40:08Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> Well, ya gotta understand that North Dakota is home to cattle, wind, land, wind, tumbleweeds, grass, rocks, wind, cattle, snow, heat, and wind. The people who live there have looked upon the grim, dead face of a nuclear winter and dubbed it January; the prospect of being blasted does not frighten them as much as the idea of watching Southerners trying to drive on ice amuses them.

I just had to register to say that with me being from the other Dakota, this is a thing of pure poetry.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-north-dakota-try-to-secede-in-the-30s/39898/42 "2011-12-22T18:33:38Z")

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North Dakota. Also known as South Saskatchewan, where people from Regina go to get warm… 🙂

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