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Doug Burgum: “North Dakota was one of the only states that had a lower…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Like two months after I saw that Bizicalc, I was driving back to North Dakota and part of it I realized, which is, wow, this is most. That era of the 1980s, young people were leaving our state, our population North Dakota was one of the only states that had a lower population in the 80s than in the 1930s. We were. Because there was, there weren't jobs there. I mean, agriculture was in decline. The oil industry hadn't begun yet. The energy industries in North Dakota. (37:23–37:27)

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Asserts that North Dakota's population declined from the 1930s to the 1980s.

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