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South Dakota state Rep. Peri Pourier, who had been a Democrat, announced Monday that she switched her voter registration to Republican.

"I have formally changed my voter registration from Democrat to Republican. My name will now appear with an (R) designation," she said in a statement .

The move leaves just five Democrats in the Mount Rushmore State's House, compared to a whopping 65 Republicans.

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Pourier, who is Oglala Lakota, suggested that the key pillars of the GOP line up "with the principle of tribal sovereignty."

"The core tenets of the Republican Party, decentralized government, self-determination, economic prosper

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