| Given your extensive humanities classes, perhaps you can tell us about the role of Hamilton Wilcox, a New York suffragist, in advocating for Utah as an experiment for granting suffrage to woman, and the special role that polygamy played in that issue. While you're at it, could you describe how Colorado and Idaho - two of the first states to allow women to vote - could be described as "very very non leftist places" and yet had strong support for the left-wing People's Party, aka, The Populists. The Populists helped push for woman's suffrage in those states. For example, Governor Davis H. Waite of Colorado, who campaigned for the right of women to vote in Colorado, was a Populist. And Colorado and Idaho supported Weaver (a Populist) in 1892. It's almost like those states were leftist places. Oh, but you're out of oumfph, so I guess I'll have the last word by responding to your questions: 1) The first states to grant women suffrage included Utah, Colorado, and Idaho. 2) It was a result of political radicalism. a) For Utah, most of the US was against polygamy and giving women the right to vote was considered a way to kill off polygamy. It backfired. (Some suffragettes were against granting women in Utah the right to vote until polygamy was outlawed, so it's confusing.) b) For Colorado, the national suffragette organizations sent people to the state to organize, and the movement was explicitly connected to the economic issues facing male working-class voters. The example at https://blog.elevationscu.com/womens-suffrage-colorado/ is "The merciless power of the plutocracy that crushes you crushes us also". This was effective because the working class people in those states were left-wing, starting unions, etc. See, I paid attention in high school when we studied the populist movement, so I knew the west was pretty leftist in the late 1800s. I didn't just sit there like you apparently did. |
Conflates populist and leftist radical. Throws in some insults as insurance /r/iamverysmart style hoping no one catches the switch.
Literally nothing in that post actually supports the point that leftist radicals are responsible for early women's suffrage in US states.
Not out of oomph. Out of patience. Adderall style google foo writing and people repeating the same thing over and over more stridently with no real backing isn't really of interest to me. If we can't be civil no need in discussing here anyway.