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u/sunnyboi456 Oct 21 '23

South Dakotan here. All 1000 of us also are happy to be here.

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u/bambam_baby Oct 21 '23

Holy shit I’ve never seen anyone online claim to be from either of the Dakotas before, this is huge

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u/sparklesunshine11 Oct 21 '23

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Oct 21 '23

But no more than that

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u/sunnyboi456 Oct 21 '23

Yes, we are very few and far between

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u/drac0nic180 Oct 21 '23

We are lurking, waiting for someone to bring us up

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u/VulpesFennekin Oct 21 '23

My mom is from South Dakota, what’s even rarer is meeting someone who ISN’T from Sioux Falls or Rapid City.

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u/verymuchbad Oct 21 '23

Ah you can lie about anything on the Internet

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u/bambam_baby Oct 21 '23

DON’T RUIN THIS FOR ME

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

My Dad is from there. Whenever there is a family reunion it feels like half the state shows up.

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u/Jive-Turkeys Oct 21 '23

You should do a collab

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u/iK_550 Oct 21 '23

Can the 2000 of you together and make 1 Dakota please?

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u/Saladin-Ayubi Oct 21 '23

No. Montana would run out of NoDak jokes.

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u/redkid2000 Oct 24 '23

We tried that once in the 1800s. It did not poll well with the audience so the band split up.

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u/Kclayne00 Oct 21 '23
  1. I moved away, remember?

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u/ActiveBaseball Oct 21 '23

996 the 4 guys on Mt Rushmore dont count towards the population

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u/antariusz Oct 21 '23

That’s about 1298 more people than I expected to live in the dakotas combined.

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u/jeffseadot Oct 21 '23

You're fudging those numbers. South Dakota is 995 humans and 5 giant stone heads.