Word: dakotas
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Outside the South, the vote against Freeman's program cut across all regional lines. Of the nation's top wheat-producing states-Kansas, North Dakota. Montana, Oklahoma and Washington-only North Dakota, with 65.8% in favor, even came close to giving Freeman a two-thirds majority. Among the so-called corn-belt states, those west of the Mississippi tended to favor the Freeman program, although not by two-thirds. In these states -Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska-the price of corn often follows the price of wheat. Many farmers plainly feared that lower wheat prices would...
...North Dakota...
...North Dakota red, white and blue billboards urge farmers to protect freedom by voting no. In Colorado bright yellow broadsides urge farmers to protect their incomes by voting yes. In every wheat-growing state in the union, wheat farmers are being assailed by posters, pamphlets, newspaper ads, broadcasts, bumper stickers and speeches, all intended to influence their votes in the May 21 national wheat referendum. Never in the history of U.S. agriculture has a crop referendum stirred such torrential efforts at persuasion. The wheat farmers will be voting on whether to accept or reject Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman...
...United States each year. Their output is insufficient to maintain the present ratio of 132 doctors per 100,000 population. And they preserve the inequitable distribution of doctors which varies from 180 doctors per 100,000 population in New York to 86 per 100,000 in South Dakota and Mississippi...
Beyond this, however, opinions diverged on why the freshmen were at such a loss for alternatives. The Senator who had perhaps given the most thought to it was George McGovern of South Dakota. McGovern is a Stevenson Democrat quite literally: it was Stevenson's '52 campaign that inspired him to quit his position as professor of History and Government at Dakota Wesley, and to become the party's executive secretary. By intensive campaigning, he managed to obtain two terms in the U.S. House, a close loss to Karl Mundt in 1960, and his victory, "not an overwhelming mandate," over...