Perspective: Cochise County didn’t used to be the land of far right stunts
What’s the matter with Cochise County? As it turns out, its challenges are the same ones facing us all. This borderland of miners and cowboys is a lot more like the rest of the United States than national media portrayals might let on.
When Arizona became a state in 1912, Cochise County — home to one of the most important copper mining regions in the world — was arguably the most influential county in Arizona. And it was not an outpost for conservative politics, but instead for worker power.
World War II was a mixed blessing for “rural” counties like Cochise. New protections for workers helped build prosperity among miners, but federal defense contracts and then postwar growth meant that the demographic and economic centers of gravity in Arizona were moving to Phoenix and Tucson, both with major military bases.
Though less well known, it was the private sector counterpart to Reagan firing striking unionized air traffic controllers a few years before, and signaled the ascension of neoliberal shareholder-driven economics on Wall Street and Main Street. In Cochise County, when the Phelps Dodge copper smelter finally closed in Douglas in 1987, the state promised jobs at a newly expanded state prison there.
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