North Dakotans Trust Their State Government

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NoDaks "trust" their state government.

I've never understood this. Why wouldn't folks "trust" their government officials? They keep re-electing them.

The Dickinson Press is reporting:

A Gallup poll released last week shows that 77 percent of North Dakota residents trust their state government “a great deal” or “a fair amount.”

That nips a handful of other Midwestern and western states. North Dakota was followed closely by Wyoming, at 76 percent; Utah, 75 percent; South Dakota, 74 percent; and Nebraska, 73 percent.

At the other end of the spectrum is Illinois, where only 28 percent say they have at least a fair amount of trust in state government.

Illinois has solved their problem: they are sending the politicians they don't trust to Washington, to screw up the rest of the country so Illinois won't look so bad.