utep is 80% for the democratic candidate, william jennings bryan in 1896.n its most republican. in the last 40 years, if not gone 80% for any presidential candidate. so you have a combination of the drive for statehood along with the existence of the people in utah asking similar questions asked around the country about the excesses of wild, the great gap between the very poor and the very wealthy and how you bring about them or just an economic society. in utah come you have the same forces populist party, knights of labor and others. then a 200 is a socialist party has developed nationally in utah as well. for the next 20 years is very active in terms of elections in all kinds of that committees. we'd like to say it creates a kind of oppositional culture and the culture is political, electoral, but it's also social. it's also intellectual. and so the socialist parties please his deep roots in utah in those first two decades of the 20th century, which again are very complicated in the years right after statehood. what the socialist party begin seeking to u