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dflprincess

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5. My parents grew up in Renville County during the Depression

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Mon Nov 7, 2016, 12:20 AM

Nov 2016

(neither one grew up on farms) and even back then the farmers in that area were largely Republican, despite the number of farms that were foreclosed on.

The family of my aunt's late husband owned a farm in that area and my uncle once said that he always voted DFL because his father went to his grave swearing he would have lost the farm if it had not been for FDR...Apparently uncle's dad had more sense than the average farmer in that area.

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