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Section sizes Section size for North Dakota (48 sections) Section name Byte count Section total (Top) 11,988 11,988 History 46 15,509 Pre-colonial history 3,260 3,260 European exploration and colonization 1,393 1,393 Settlement and statehood 3,765 3,765 20th and 21st centuries 7,045 7,045 Geography 10,675 14,833 Climate 4,158 4,158 Demographics 17 31,196 Population 5,173 5,173 Race and ethnicity 17,619 17,619 Languages 2,130 2,130 Religion 6,257 6,257 Economy 11,476 32,108 Agriculture 6,736 6,736 Energy 6,113 6,113 Tourism 3,614 3,614 Health care 4,169 4,169 Culture 112 9,738 Native American First Nations 1,210 1,210 Pow wows 1,492 1,492 Norwegian and Icelandic influences 1,703 1,703 Germans from Russia 1,568 1,568 Fine and performing arts 567 567 Entertainment 1,510 1,510 Cuisine 49 49 Sports 1,527 1,527 Media 5,138 5,138 Education 14 3,536 Higher education 2,121 2,121 Primary and secondary education 1,401 1,401 Emergency services 2,111 2,111 Transportation 3,782 3,782 Law and government 1,569 14,158 Executive 1,355 1,355 Legislative 419 419 Judicial 2,294 2,294 Indian tribes and reservations 943 943 Federal 907 907 Politics 2,898 2,898 State taxes 3,773 3,773 Notable people 3,928 3,928 See also 206 206 Notes 47 47 References 29 29 Bibliography 4,422 5,227 Primary sources 805 805 External links 1,736 1,736 Total 155,270 155,270

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This article could use a description of how towns and cities and counties and townships are governed, or a link to an article that does. -- Beland (talk) 22:16, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Basically, because of the language in the US Constitution, there's a serious challenge to whether North Dakota was legally a state until 2012, when the state corrected the issue. Shouldn't this topic be relevant to this article? 2601:147:4100:B90:119D:608B:F62D:841B (talk) 14:19, 30 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @TheLionHasSeen:.

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The data is there. There's a glitch (on some devices?) where it says N/A. KlayCax (talk) 18:21, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Data:

White evangelical Protestant: 21

Mainline Protestant: 28

Hispanic Protestant: 2

Other non-white Protestant: 1

White Catholic: 28

Jewish: 1

Buddhist: 1

Unaffilated: 12

New Age: 6

21 + 28 + 2 + 1 = 52 for Protestantism. KlayCax (talk) 18:28, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The graph for the religion section is extremely confusing, it lists New Age being 6% of the religion and sites this American Values Atlas. There are almost no New Age institutions with that big of a traction within this state, and then the paragraphs accompanying it site the Pew Research Center which was the old graph and was much more accurate to the states demographics, so what is this new graph then? Los Pobre (talk) 19:20, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Does the reference refer to New Age specifically, or new religious movements in general? Walt Yoder (talk) 20:19, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  In general, in all my years in this state there hasn’t been anything remotely prominent enough to be showing 6% of the population. Los Pobre (talk) 14:34, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The 2020 PRRI study (National overview) just has "Another religion" rather than trying to separate "other religions" from "new-age religions". Without a definition of what this means (and the 2022 site doesn't have any additional details), we should group "New age" into "other". Walt Yoder (talk) 22:11, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why was the data changed in the first place? This PRRI one seems very odd in percentages compared to the Pew Research graph, again, the 6% New Age and furthermore 1% Buddhism (I believe 1%, I just remembering seeing it) was marked on there, compared to Islam, which there is an actual viewable presence of in areas like Fargo or Grand Forks yet wasn't even on the graph by my memory. Los Pobre (talk) 01:59, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]