How long will the "F" stay in the DFL?

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3. Here's a little history:

The DFL was created in 1944 by the merger of the Minnesota Democratic Party and the Farmer–Labor Party. The Farmer–Labor Party in turn arose from the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota and the Union Labor Party in Duluth. The Nonpartisan League favored state control of mills, grain elevators, banks and other farm-related industries, while the Union Labor Party represented the iron miners, loggers and sawmill workers in northern Minnesota. All of these early parties were basically socialist or socialist-leaning. The farmers were not union members or supporters as such, but especially during the Depression they were looking for ways to keep corporate political interests from controlling the prices paid them by grain elevators and mills, and loan practices of banks. The reason the DFL was created was that both the union workers and the famers had the common interest of resisting the corporations' ability to keep their prices and wages low.