After growing up in Oklahoma I won't be shocked if they don't vote him out. Although the OKC area is one of two more liberal areas in Oklahoma so that might work against him. In the small town I grew up in our library had a closed door Confederate and KKK museum until the 90's. African Americans weren't allowed in town after dark until nearly the 80's.
Do you mean weren't allowed by law, or do you mean that it would be dangerous of them to be out after dark?
Yes
For all its faults (I liked it well enough), Lovecraft Country pretty accurately portrayed Sundown Towns.
These guys thankfully filled in the info, but the signs on the roads into the town I grew up in said they would hang them if found after dark, but in more racist wording. They didn't come down until 1978 in my town.
What's a "closed door museum?"
It depends. Are you white?
Yes, but I am a Northern Aggressor
You best just keep on drivin’
Prior to the 80's it was more of an open affair, but at some point they just put a door with no windows on it and you had to be asked to go into the "heritage room". Even into the late 90s before it was remodeled.
I read this comment a few times, and googled it, but I still don't know what a closed-door museum or a heritage room is in this context. What are they, and what happens in them? Lol
It was a room full of racist moron paraphilia where they believed they were preserving history although it was set up as a shrine to "The South will rise again" style bullshit. I doubt you will find anything on those search terms since they were just how I described it. I don't know if such things even existed in other towns, but ours had a room no bigger than 15x15' enshrined with Confederate, KKK, and even white supremacist paraphernalia. It's not a part of the towns history it would admit to now.
Wow. Thanks for the info. Can't say I'm surprised, but I'm definitely disappointed that those places exist...ed? I hope they don't exist. But again, I'd be disappointed, but not surprised...
No problem! My understanding is it's gone now, hit it's been a few years since I have been back. I wouldn't be surprised either.
Oklahoma is such a weird state. A bunch of conservatives and a bunch of indigenous reservations.
But since we killed so many of them off, the indigenous only represent about 10% of the population.
The question assumes they actually want to vote him out. People voting for him will just excuse it by pretending the Unite the Right riot was not a white supremacist really despite it being organized by white supremacists. Hell, here in Washington we had a white supremacist terrorist in our state House. It didn't matter that it was publicized that he beat his wife for having the audacity to wake up before him or that he published a manifesto calling for gays to submit our be killed or that he helped organize the Bundy standoff. He was re-elected for 10 years and left on his own accord. And then went on to traffic children in Ukraine.
Voting out fascism, good joke.
Might be worth noting, most of Enid's money comes from a Koch plant there, one of the largest in the country.
Enid's politics and people are definitely influenced by the Koch's.
What a koch sucker
The name “Judd Blevins” sounds like character in Anchorman.
"I love lebensgesetzlich" - Judd Blevins Channel 4 News Team
What blows my mind is that the only black councilmember forgave him and basically torpedoed a censure of him.
Would really like to pick his brain to see what he was thinking at that moment considering the guy essentially admitted he was still a member of that white supremist group.
I would like to ask all the black and gay republicans what the hell is going on in their minds.
I mean it's obviously money, but still, I'd love to hear them justify it.
That was a great read!
Why would they? From what I hear of Oklahoma, he fits right in.
I'm from Oklahoma, and Enid is definitely a small, backwoods town that has nothing but a Koch plant.
Trump won that county in 2020 with 77% of the vote.
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