From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxp!dap
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: North Dakota
Article-I.D.: ihuxp.339
Posted: Tue Jan 18 07:57:25 1983
Received: Thu Jan 20 02:49:37 1983
Reply-To: dap@ihuxp.UUCP (David A. Poplawski)

I thought it time to come to the defense of North Dakota...

I've been in N.D.  many times - it does exist and is a beautiful  state  in
many  ways.   I've never seen sunrises and sunsets as beautiful as those in
N.D.  The east and north is good farming country, responsible for  much  of
the wheat and most of the sunflower seeds and oil produced in this country.
The west is rolling range country, with  the  Theodore  Roosevelt  National
Monument  (also  known  as  the  badlands,  but not to be confused with the
badlands in South Dakota)  in  the  far  west  near  Montana.   It  can  be
traversed  via  many  excellently  maintained highways (how many states can
claim good roads!) including U.S.  Highway 2 across the  northern  part  of
the  state.   It  is served by Amtrak (something South Dakota is not!), and
the Burlington Northern, Soo Line and Chicago,  Milwaukee,  St.   Paul  and
Pacific railroads, plus numerous airlines such as Northwest Orient.

But most of all, North Dakota has the most important advantage of all  over
all the other states - nobody who has been complaining about or questioning
the existence of the state will ever visit  -  all  the  better  for  North
Dakota.

				Dave Poplawski