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Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3156 words) |
 | Minnesota is the largest state by land area in the Midwestern United States and is in the sub-region known as the Upper Midwest. |
| Minnesota is known for active yet quirky politics, with populism being a long-standing force among all of the political parties that call the state home. |
| Minnesota is the northernmost of the 48 contiguous states (Alaska reaches significantly farther north), reaching to 49° 23' 04" north latitude, due to a small piece of the state known as the Northwest Angle. |
| Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (277 words) |
| The party is affiliated with the national Democratic Party. |
| The nickname "DFLers" is often used in Minnesota by both members and non-members of the party as an alternative to "Democrats". |
| Other important party members include US Senator Eugene McCarthy, who ran for the Democratic Party nomination in 1968 as the anti-Vietnam War candidate, and US Senator Paul Wellstone, known during his years in the Senate (1991-2002) as that body's chief voice of populist progressivism[1]. |
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