Most communists, as any Plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota.
Cold War in a Cold La.
Mills offers an enlightening look at what most of the heartland was up to while America was united in its war on Reds.
In this book, David W.
Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism, as common wisdom has it.
The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts.
Most communists, as any Plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota