How The John Birch Society Changed Oklahoma

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The Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC) has become one of the most powerful outside groups in state Republican politics. Founder and President Charlie Meadows claims that his organization is a major reason why Oklahoma has swung from deep blue to deep red in the last twenty years, and we have no reason to doubt him. What we find interesting, though, is that he made this claim to the John Birch Society last October at a dinner and “education session” in North Carolina.

His advice was to build relationships with state and local leaders. Much of the reason why Oklahoma went from a blue state to a solid red state in 20 years is due to the education and accountability efforts of OCPAC.

A proud Bircher since 1988, Meadows was a conference speaker at the JBS 50th Anniversary celebration (PDF) in 2008. Everything we have learned so far about Meadows and OCPAC leads us to conclude that this important force in Oklahoma politics is actually a front for the John Birch Society’s political organizing in that state.

Mainstream America may have dismissed the JBS as irrelevant decades ago, but the Birchers have never stopped organizing thousands of small trust networks across the nation. JBS was consciously modeled after Leninism in its early years. Founder Robert Welch organized the Society as though he was a Maoist insurgent, forming cells of no more than a dozen at a time and splitting any larger group into two or more smaller ones. As Dave Barry wrote for the New York Times in 2009,