Absolutely true. But why?
Because by and large, they didn't have "nothing else to lose". They had their families. They had their friends and neighbors. They had God.
Today, after 50 years of purposeful Progressive destruction, an increasing number of Americans have nothing but government as a support system. And they are either learning that government is a poor substitute for the institutions liberals have labored to destroy - or increasingly, they are lashing out at the impotence and emptiness of their lives.
You said it better than I did, brother.