While Vice President Kamala Harris‘s newly picked running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), is a progressive Democrat, his party is a quirk within the Democratic Party: Minnesota‘s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, or the DFL.

The DFL is affiliated with the Democratic Party but was created in the 1940s out of a merger between the state’s Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party. The DFL is one of two Democratic Party state affiliates with a different name than the national party, with the other being the North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party.