unnoticed political fact

[Nathan Newman]

As I understand it, one of them still bans corporations from owning farm
land in the state, thereby preventing anything other than family farms -
even if some of them are pretty big.

Nathan Newman
nathan at newman.org
http://www.nathannewman.org
----- Original Message -----
From: <Leslilake1 at aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: unnoticed political fact

In a message dated 01-07-09 23:37:07 EDT, N. Newman writes:

<< The Dakotas are odd places that vote pretty GOP for President but keep

 electing pretty liberal Dems for Senate - its an odd populism but then it

 has a long tradition of strange political alignments >>

I think I remember reading somewhere that one of the Dakotas had
legislatively prohibited the factory hog (or chicken?) farms that are
becoming standard in the midwest/south (and coming to washington state,
apparently - on a recent drive through eastern wa I saw, on one side of the
road, the beginnings of a intensive cattle operation and on the other, a
farmhouse, with a "for sale" sign and a handmade protest billboard pointing
to the operation: "site of proposed open cesspool").  Anybody know anything
about this kind of legislation in the Dakotas?  Or anywhere else, for that
matter?

Les