Sins of The Flesh let me ask you one thing. One of the government's efforts to "move" us forward was to give women the right to vote after the women's movement for the right to vote forced the government to act. Are you saying that you think the government should NOT have given in to these "helpless and incompetent" and given women the right to vote. Are you saying you would rather not have the right to vote since that would mean the government "moved" us forward. Is that what you are saying?
Originally Posted by BigLouie
The government did not move us forward on women's suffrage. Political activists did.
And, not surprisingly, progressives and conservatives of the early 1900 BOTH tended to favor women's suffrage. Men on both sides generally thought their wives had the same political inclinations they did and that women's suffrage would increase their side of the vote. They tended to discount the off-setting votes of women on the other side of the aisle.
This is the map of women's suffrage in the US at the time of the 19th Amendment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ma...rage,_1920.svg
The entire Western US, including OK, Nebraska and all the red states in the mountains already had women's suffrage.
With the exception of NY, the entire east coast had some type of restrictions on women voting. And that include ALL of New England.
So maybe that women's vote thing WASN'T a left-wing idea, huh?