>Very true. See Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's excellent Red Dirt: Growing Up
>Okie for an account of the multiracial rebels of Oklahoma.
Great book. Oklahoma had a very strong socialist party in the early years of the 20th century. It faltered after the Green Corn Rebellion. I think the strength of the party had a lot to do with European immigration. Most people probably don't think of Oklahoma as a big destination for Europeans and so are unaware of towns like Prague, Oklahoma, founded by Czech immigrants. There's also an interesting history of communal experiments there. There were all black towns and I've heard tell of all female towns.
Carrol wrote:
>>Density was not always equtable with politics.
I think you could say the shift began with Dunbar-Ortiz's generation. She went to school at UCLA and has lived in California ever since.
Oklahoma hasn't been a hotbed of radicalism for a long time, and certainly not since Dems there went for Nixon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Corn_Rebellion
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AL009.html