CHARACTERSTICS OF INDIANA POLITICS

Introduction

In the 1920s Indiana was the major bastion of Ku Klux Klan power in the country. The Hoosier chapel is the national headquarters of the American Legion, while its two newspapers are among the most conservative big-city papers in the country. Bumper stickers urging people to “Fight Crime, Shoot Back” and to resist any form of gun control are regularly seen on automobiles bearing Indiana p1ates and epistles condemning the Federal government. While Robert Owen and Frances Wright had no significant role in later developments in the United States, and William Maclure retired to Mexico for his health, ...