I have confirmed a bit of fairly useless political trivia that I’ve suspected all along.
The most Republican state in the United States of America is just a bit down the road from where my wife and I live.
It’s Oklahoma, man.
Forget them Deep South Dixie bastions that have gone from decidedly Democratic to reliably Republican since the days of, oh, the signing of civil rights and voting rights legislation in the 1960s.
My Okie neighbors now hold the title of living in the Most Republican State in America.
I checked a website I like looking at and discovered that for the past four presidential elections, the Republican candidate has carried every one of Oklahoma’s 77 counties. The 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 elections all went the GOP’s way in Okie Land. Democrats fared pretty well, even picking off three counties in the 1984 Ronald Reagan landslide. Richard Nixon won all counties in 1972 … no surprise there.
It’s interesting in this sense. Oklahoma has two sizable public universities — the University of Oklahoma in Norman and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. One might be led to believe, if you adhere to the dogma put out by conservative thinkers, that these “liberal bastions” would have some kind of nefarious influence on young minds and even on the community at-large.
Well, not so. The GOP has locked down its own vise-grip on the Sooner State.
Stand tall, Sooners. Your guy won again! I’m sure y’all are hoping you chose wisely.