Western “red states” were built on strong socialist and labor traditions. Mining unions helped win hospitals, sanitation and public services, but corporate power and federal repression erased much of that history, leaving worker reforms while obscuring their origins.
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Dozens of cities in the Mountain West region elected socialists in the early 1900s. The economic conditions that led to their ascendance, their legacy of municipal improvement, and their ultimate diss...
