[lbo-talk] negligible and stupid

[Steven L. Robinson]

Must not forget California. For decades it elected relatively liberal Republicans like Hiram Johnson, Earl Warren and Tom Kuchel. Most of the liberal Republicans disappeared from this state, at least, in the early 1980s. SR

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From: Jim Farmelant 

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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] negligible and stupid

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:03:49 -0600 Carrol Cox writes:


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The GOP was the long time political home of

Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr.,

who was for his day certainly considered to be

quite a progressive.  In 1924 he ran for president

as a third-party candidate on the Progressive Party

ticket, and enjoyed the support the early CPUSA.

In places like Wisconsin and Minnesota the GOP

was for a long time quite progessive,


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