{"id":17974,"date":"2016-11-15T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17974"},"modified":"2016-11-15T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:57:10","slug":"sooners-are-the-deepest-red-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17974","title":{"rendered":"Sooners are the deepest red among us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17975\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Vote Voting Election Politic Decision Democracy Concept\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote-768x540.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/vote.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have confirmed a bit of fairly useless political trivia that I&#8217;ve suspected all along.<\/p>\n<p>The most Republican state in the United States of America is just a bit down the road from where my wife and I live.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Oklahoma, man.<\/p>\n<p>Forget\u00a0them Deep South Dixie bastions that have gone from\u00a0decidedly Democratic to reliably Republican since the days of, oh, the signing of civil rights and voting rights legislation in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>My Okie neighbors now hold the title of living in the\u00a0Most Republican State in America.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s\u00a077 counties. The 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 elections all went the GOP&#8217;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 &#8230; no surprise there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting in this sense. Oklahoma has two sizable public universities &#8212; the University of Oklahoma in Norman and Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. One might be led to\u00a0believe, if you adhere to the dogma put out by conservative thinkers, that these &#8220;liberal bastions&#8221; would have some kind of nefarious influence on young minds and even on the community at-large.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not so. The GOP has locked down its own vise-grip on the Sooner State.<\/p>\n<p>Stand tall,\u00a0Sooners. Your guy won again! I&#8217;m sure y&#8217;all are hoping you chose wisely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/RESULTS\/\">http:\/\/uselectionatlas.org\/RESULTS\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have confirmed a bit of fairly useless political trivia that I&#8217;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&#8217;s Oklahoma, man. Forget\u00a0them Deep South Dixie bastions that have gone from\u00a0decidedly Democratic to reliably Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17974\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sooners are the deepest red among us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6678,3940,4017],"class_list":["post-17974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-oklahoma-gop","tag-richard-nixon","tag-ronald-reagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17976,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17974\/revisions\/17976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}