Yellowstone Season 4 Premiere Recap: You 'Herd' It Here First

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8. South Dakota is a GOP/mafia state, today, in reality, in current time

So Dak hides money for foreign mobsters.

The Governor sent the National Guide to the border, funded by some rich GOP asshole.

GO-ED scandal. Richard Benda. The attorney general hit and killed a man who dies. Left him on the side of the road because the AG "hit a deer". The sheriff lent the AG his car, and drove off. They won't impeach the AG or send him to jail.

Noem's daughter got an appraiser's license, despite not being able to pass the test. SD had to settle 200K for the lady they ousted while she was the head of the appraiser's office.

Russian spy Maria Butina had a GOP "boyfriend" (rat fucker operative) who lives in So Dak.

I cannot speak to how Montana does or does not resemble the TV series. But So. Dak. definitely does.

Texas probably also does (Bush Crime Family etc.)
Idaho, most def. has militias, with guns.