What?

In watching bits of the Democratic Convention, I noticed in the seats was the delegation claiming to be from North Dakota.  I wonder where they're really from.  Say what?  I don't think there really is such a place as North Dakota.  I think it's just a fabrication.  In all my years of working in the hotel business, no one from North Dakota ever shows up.  In all my years as an editor, I've never seen a single story from anybody in North Dakota.  I've never met anyone from North Dakota. Heck, I can't even find anybody who claims to have even been there. That's why I don't think there is such a place and that it is simply a fiction that turns up on election maps--for what reason I do not really know.