Oklahoma voters to decide whether to end cockfighting.

Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | October 26, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: Karen Brandon

BETHEL ACRES, Okla. _ "If you was a chicken, you'd want to be a game rooster," insisted Pokey Stover Savage, her drawl as thick as cream gravy ladled on a biscuit, as she explained her deeply held convictions on a major political issue in Oklahoma.

Cockfighting is a pastime Savage reveres, a practice 47 states outlaw, and a subject that has ignited a political firestorm in the Sooner State, one of the sport's last legal bastions.

"These roosters," continued Savage, a cocker like her grandfather, father and late husband before ...

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