Gretchen Whitmer: “You get a good job on the line at Ford or GM and afford to…”

“Like, you have this big Dutch population on the west side or Finns in the Upper Peninsula. Like, Michigan's really a diverse, the most diverse of Midwest states. And it is because people came. You get a good job on the line at Ford or GM and afford to buy like a place up north on a lake and have your house in Detroit. And it was a middle class guarantee you could get in and you didn't need education beyond high school to live that opportunity. So it drew so many people into Michigan.” (12:26–12:36)

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