They say only in Ohio. And that irritates me because it wasn't long ago that people weren't making fun of Ohio. They were aspiring to be Ohio. At the turn of the last century, we were the wealthiest state in the Union, the third most populous state in the United States. Even in the first industrial revolution, all the way through it, we were the state that led the way, an economic powerhouse at the heart of the greatest nation known to the history of mankind, with great fertile farmland, great natural resources underneath our ground. (09:41–09:50)
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