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Just take statehood away from North Dakota and give it to PR so we can keep the number of stars and stripes.
Merge north and south dakota
South Dakota is cool so they can just be in charge of ND from now on.
Having lived in both, sounds like ND would be the only one benefitting there. Have Noem and Burgum fight for which state has the power.
ND is a shithole with an insignificant population, its the capital of the US in terms of wild dogs and birth defects correlating with flare stack methane emissions.
The best part of ND would be the natives, but given their sovereignty they won't be affected by the changeover.
ND rates high in birth defects? I didn't know that. I tried looking up data, but everything from CDC, March of Dimes, and studies done by ND universities put the state about dead center among other states. Do you have a link about this statistic? I would like to learn more.
AFAIK there is no study comparing the rates of birth defects in new births every year by state, though just about every state tracks it, rather most states only get rated by number of infant mortalities which is a different stat: only 1 in 4 fatalities are from birth defects.
My comment was just a big sharp jab at North Dakota for its policies, but if there was any truth to it that was because of methane emissions correlating highly. ND has the second largerst emissions per capita in 2017 according to World Research Institute and those emissions are further concentrated to specific counties involved in the oilfield. Articles talking about emissions impacts on public health like This One point out that 80% of Fracking is done in Texas and North Dakota, and articles like This Other Article which also mentions North Dakota specifically. NRDC also has a write up about reduced weight as a result of emissions and exposure, and it again mentions North Dakota by name.
Unfortunately, though, no. I don't have data to back up my earlier claim.
Oh no problem, I wasn't trying to play gotcha. But thanks for this info. I don't know much about ND.