Fun fact: North/South Dakota are only 2 states because Republicans wanted more Senators.

[MelissaB]

Fun fact: North/South Dakota are only 2 states because Republicans wanted more Senators. ND even says this on their *government* website:

https://ndstudies.gov/gr4/early-settlement-north-dakota/section-6-statehood

"the Republican Party, which wanted more power in the U.S. Senate, put on pressure to divide Dakota into two states"

Link to tweet

Bill Mahar asks the question about why there are two Dakota's frequently.

[LaMouffette]

1. Hmm . . . North California / South California anyone???

[Proud liberal 80]

5. I wouldn't mind Texas splitting

If that happened I hat wouldn’t mean mite Republicans as one might think. I Would bet that Democrats got 2 Senators out of that split

[Doreen]

2. The fact they got it does not seem fun.

[Arne]

3. West Virginia? What happened there?

[Proud liberal 80]

4. Ironically West VA broke from VA to stay in the Union

Who would have thought looking at the state now

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Hmm. Northern Kentucky, Eastern Kaintuck, SouthCentral Corntuck, Western Qtuck.

[Mr. Sparkle]

7. Lets pass a law that says they can only have 1 senator each

and half of their congressional quota.

[intheflow]

8. Okay. But you all know that was back when the Rs were the liberals, right?

In 1880, when this happened, the Democratic Party was the party of the Lost Cause, the party that invented Jim Crow. The Republicans were the Party of Lincoln. This kind of historical illiteracy evolves into cultural illiteracy which includes governmental illiteracy. Then you get MAGA. American history is not simple. This isn't the "gotcha" it appears at first reading.

[Turin_C3PO]

9. I wouldn't call the Republicans liberal.

They were way better on civil rights but even back then they supported big business, wealthy people, robber barons, etc.

[intheflow]

10. They were socially liberal for their time.

I'll agree with that distinction.

[roamer65]

11. Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas should be consolidated into one administrative region.

Then it would be about 6 or 7 EV’s.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Another Odd Fact

In 1889, SD territory had 340,000 people, per the article. 132 years later, they have 884k. About 2.6 fold of what they had in 1889.
The US went from 62 million in 1889, to 330 million. 5.3 fold.
So, SD has grown at only half the rate as the country as a whole!
I never would have guessed it was that disparate.