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Collin Peterson

Collin Clark Peterson (born June 29, 1944) is an American politician, member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 7th congressional district, and the most senior representative from Minnesota, serving since 1991. He is the ranking member of the House Committee on Agriculture and the dean of the Minnesota congressional delegation. A conservative Democrat, his district, Minnesota's largest and most rural district, includes most of the western area of the state, including Moorhead, Fergus Falls, Bemidji, Detroit Lakes, Thief River Falls, Willmar, Marshall, and Alexandria.

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Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

Lots Of Money, Money, Redistricting, Republican, Republicans

There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem.

Cities, Looks, Maps, Nolan, Rick, Tim

I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.

Line, Party, People, Presidential, Running, Time

[Bernie] Sanders tapped into that [trade issues]; that was part of his support. And then when he didn't make it, some of those Sanders people went to [Donald] Trump.

Donald, Issues, Make, People, Support, Trade

When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite.

Opposites, Two, Three, Supposed, Opposite, Mexico

[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.

Centers, Different, People, Rural, Views, Voters

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

Happened, Republican, Republicans, Smart

You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year for health insurance and make it work. You just can't do it. It's got to change.

Economics, Know, Lake, Lakes, Pay, Years

Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues. "

Party, Issues, People, Deal, Agree

Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are competitive, so that you've got a shot at electing Democrats. But that's more a long-term proposition, if it can even be done.

Democrats, Districts, Done, Long, Packing, Trying

If everybody in our caucus had a 50
50 [Democrat
Republican] district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.

Different, Discussion, Everybody, Republican, Want

[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems.

Causing, Party, People, Political, Things

We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.

America, Assembling, Caucus, Gay, Party, Relate

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

Backlash, Correctness, Political, Political Correctness

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

Government, Like, Live, Lives, People, Telling

The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

Agriculture, America, Party, Rural, Urban

It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.

2008, Happened, Stills, Streets, Wall

I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.

Democrat, Like, Party, Today, Trying, Winning

The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.

Party, Thinking, Done, Areas, Democratic

It was kind of interesting: [People] didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind of like they've been unleashed.

Election, Interesting, Like, People, Want

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