That really started in Wisconsin. A guy named Fighting Bob La Follette, who became governor, and Wisconsin legislators and the Wisconsin legislators and the Wisconsin idea...regulated the railroads, put workplace safety rules in place, unemployment insurance, workers compensation. insurance, workers compensation. Wisconsinites then helped shape the New Deal. Wisconsinite wrote the Social Security act. And it was followed a generation later by Joe McCarthy, though. (35:34–35:47)
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