[EL] Tea Party strongholds of today were Socialist strongholds 100 years ago

[Richard Winger]

I am helping someone who is writing a new book on the history of the Socialist Party, which caused me to review election data for the 1912 presidential election for the Socialist Party.  The top 29 counties in percentage of the presidential vote cast for the Socialist ticket (i.e., the top 1 percentile) in 1912 included 13 Oklahoma counties, 5 Louisiana counties, 3 Texas counties, 2 Kansas counties, and one county each in North Dakota, Nevada and Montana.  Those are all "red" states, and conservative red at that, for the most part.

On the other side of the ledger, in 1912 there was Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (the only urban county in the top 29 counties in 1912) and two in Minnesota.
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