What the hell is up with Oklahoma?
Thomas Frank should write this as the sequel to What's the Matter With Kansas?
Oklahoma is conservative Republicanism distilled into its purest, most evangelical, most anti-elitist, most reactionary form. It's where hardscrabble, no-nonsense farmers in the western half of the state meet holy-rolling, pistol-packing Southerners in the eastern half of the state. The "Little Dixie" area toward the Arkansas border still elects a fair number of Democrats to local office, but this is more out of force of habit than anything else and they more or less say and believe the same things their Republican counterparts do.
At least this is what my relatives who live in Oklahoma tell me (they had the misfortune and/or lack of sense to move from Texas to Oklahoma; we've never quite let them live that down).
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