SOCIALIST PARTY SPLITS PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS IN
Scope and Content Note: Socialist Party organized separately in 1934; Bone Lake area voted Progressive Republican. Socialists rejoined Progressive Republican Party in 1938; conservative Progressives swelled Republican Party ranks. Dane and Polk counties at one time registered highest Progressive Republican vote in Wisconsin; changed during World War II, because “as people got a little bit more money, they got a little bit more conservative, too.”