Develop these resources and the state economies will skyrocket. People will come for work and welfare, cities will spring up, and cities are LIBERAL.
Care should be taken to develop the resource while keeping the Dakotas rural.
Creeping liberalism is always a concern. One thing the Dakotas have to combat that is winter. Most liberals just won't put forth the effort to survive ours.
How do imagine that will happen? How can towns expand to handle another 50,000 oil workers and the multitude of others jobs to feed, house and otherwise provide services and stay rural?