History
The North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party has roots in the Progressive Era of American history. Led by lawyers, merchants, editors, and professors, progressives of the time joined both the Republican Party, which had strong control of state politics, as well as the state Democratic Party, the progressive faction of which called itself "the party of the laborer and the farmer." Although their cooperation did not impair North Dakota's staunch allegiance to the Republican Party, progressives found some support in the Norwegian-settled eastern part of the state. By 1906, Progressive roots were growing in opposition to what many saw as complete control of state politics by the railroads of the day. The initial organization and calls for reform laid a foundation that would soon grow into a statewide socialist workers' movement.
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