If you're a modern-day liberal, it's an interesting exercise to look at Congressional roll-call votes from the 1910's--from the "Progressive Era". Congress voted on a number of issues with modern salience, including prohibition, immigration, and women's suffrage. But, as many have written, modern-day liberals won't necessarily find people they agree with very often. For example, many progressive Congressmen were in favor of prohibition, and many conservative Congressmen were in favor of women's suffrage. A few Congressmen, though, seem to have had something like a modern liberal ideology--economically progressive, in favor of women's suffrage, but against prohibition, against the era's restrictions on immigration, and against bans on miscegenation. One such Congressman was Robert Crosser of Ohio, and I thought he deserved a diary.
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