Red is the color of socialism, boy I hate this “red state” nonsense.
Anyway
<<<<<<<<<<<<“A lot of people think it’s Democrat versus Republican,” said former Democratic Gov. George Nigh, who was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1950. “All the time I was in politics, it was rural versus urban.”<<<<
And the urban areas in OK were more Republican way back when. The last bastions of rat strength in the state were the areas were cockfighting is popular.
“And the urban areas in OK were more Republican way back when.”
You could say the same thing about Northern Virginia. There was a time in the not too distant past where NoVa was the GOP’s major stronghold in the state - apart from the ‘burbs of Richmond and parts of the Tidewater.