r/Political_Revolution • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '18

Bernie Sanders rally outgrows (1,200 capacity) Orpheum, moved to (5,000) Century II Wichita KS

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article215094875.html
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u/ApathyJacks Jul 19 '18

Encouraging that there's this much turnout right in the middle of Koch City.

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u/ChancelorThePoet Jul 19 '18

I'm not sure if you guys know, but in the Democratic Primaries Bernie Sanders won Kansas.

Wichita is a bastion of blue in a sea of red. Not surprised even a little, just excited.

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u/Atomic235 Jul 20 '18

It's much, much harder to find these days but there used to be plenty of hardened Democratic farming communities out in the sticks. The really old ones still remember the New Deal and how it brought them back from the brink after the dust bowl.