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==Politics of Minnesota==
==Politics of Minnesota==
Minnesota has been historically a [[Democratic]] state. They have not gone Republican in a Presidential election since [[Richard Nixon]] in 1972. However, in the 2010 elections, Republicans won a majority of both chambers of the Minneota Legislature for the first itme since 1970. The 2008 Republican National Convention was held in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Minnesota has been historically a [[Democratic]] state. They have not gone Republican in a Presidential election since [[Richard Nixon]] in 1972. However, in the 2010 elections, Republicans won a majority of both chambers of the Minnesota Legislature for the first itme since 1970. The 2008 Republican National Convention was held in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
[[File:HHH.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Hubert Humphrey booted Fannie Lou Hamer out of the 1964 convention, seated the all-white Mississippi delegation, and was rewarded with the VP spot.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07PwNVCZCcY Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony], American Experience, [[PBS]]. youtube.</ref> In 1968 HHH was nominated despite never appearing on any ballot in any primary.]]
[[File:HHH.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Hubert Humphrey booted Fannie Lou Hamer out of the 1964 convention, seated the all-white Mississippi delegation, and was rewarded with the VP spot.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07PwNVCZCcY Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony], American Experience, [[PBS]]. youtube.</ref> In 1968 HHH was nominated despite never appearing on any ballot in any primary.]]
Minnesota is the only state in the Union in which the national Democratic Party actually is represented by the state-level [[Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party]] (DFL). All Democratic politicians in and from Minnesota work under the DFL header, though since the loss of manufacturing jobs to [[China]] and growth of [[agribusiness]] this now is more an issue of tradition than actual meaning.
Minnesota is the only state in the Union in which the national Democratic Party actually is represented by the state-level [[Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party]] (DFL). All Democratic politicians in and from Minnesota work under the DFL header, though since the loss of manufacturing jobs to [[China]] and growth of [[agribusiness]] this now is more an issue of tradition than actual meaning.