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