Techicaly Minnesota is a merger of 2 (on paper equal, in reality lop sided) parties the Democrats and the Farm & Labor Party, Back in the day Farm and Labor had the state utterly locked, but had no affiliation with a national party, and the Dems had the inverse situation, so the Dems proposed a merger, and now we get to today where the Dems are the party more or less, however I get to credit anything they do that is better for the working class that I would expect from the US to the Farm and Labor half.