re: #244 WindUpBird

As the NYT write up that reasearchok linked (in the spinoffs) put it, Iowa used to be a leader in civil rights, from the beginning (before it was even a state.)

The ascension of the revanchist right-wing in the area of the country that used to be the home of Lincolnian Republicanism - the north central part of this nation - is certainly telling of what has happened in the US post WWII.