From your state’s founding with the likes of an “Orderville” right up through your “Welfare Square,” your state — and its currently dominant religious group — has been premised on the major tenets of “socialism” from inception. I’ll take it a step further, into the present: Your state’s love of all things “first responder” and for the military would be impossible without, again, the major tenets of socialized thought and problem solving!
Most genuinely learned people can debate the precepts and degrees of principle within socialism, but what it boils down to is this: In the end, “socialism” is simply a group of people (a community, a tribe, a society) which seeks to pool its resources, collectively, to solve identifiable problems and to propel itself further into a civilized state.