Talk:Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

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The Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party or (DFL) was created on 1944 April 15 when the Minnesota Democratic Party and Farmer-Labor Party merged to create the DFL. Hubert H. Humphrey was instrumental in this merger.

In the 1970s, some radicals outside MN described HHH as having "kicked out the" radicals [Reds, Communists, don't recall] "in the MN DP", i think as an argument that his VP or Pres candidacy was a sign that DP was not worth radicals supporting it against GOP.
I always presumed that this meant that the range of ideologies of DFL activists who could expect to fully participate was broadened to the left (in '44), relative to pre-DFL DP, and that HHH later helped implement a retreat from that, either purging FL vets from leadership or narrowing a de facto "grandfather clause" to apply only to the "grandfathers" and not to their proteges. Can anyone provide NPoV info on this? (Or even PoV?!)
--Jerzy(t) 20:08, 2004 May 12 (UTC)

I added some further reading references, which might go a ways toward answering Jerzy's questions. No idea if they are online. DJ Silverfish 19:24, 17 May 2005 (UTC)