Yesterday, we told you about how T-Town is lovin', touchin', and squeezin' themselves on some Rick Santorum. Although it's not surprising that Oklahoma as a whole is sweet on a guy who hates gay people and sex, I did find it a little surprising that my home, the "Austin of Oklahoma" if you will (I'll pause for a moment and let you finish laughing), preferred him over the Oklahoman's sweetheart, a somewhat moderate Mitt Romney.
I'm sure we can all agree that politics is a strange and frustrating thing. It gets even stranger in a community full of true conservatives posing as moderates who end up voting Democratic when it comes to municipal offices. This rare mixture of white guilt, closeted libertarianism, and a firm belief in capitalism can be found in not one, but two residential areas of the 918: South Tulsa and Midtown.
There's no real way to explain a typical Tulsan's political ideology in words, so I'll break it down for you using familiar examples instead: