You know, it's meaningless stuff on TikTok. But there's something old or out of touch long ago that people weren't making fun of Ohio. They were aspiring to be Ohio. See, At the turn of the last century, we were actually the wealthiest state in the Union, the third most populous state in America. The pioneers, the explorers, the frontier of the industrial revolution. We led it even in the 1950s. It's not that long ago in the scheme of things. (10:15–10:25)
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Asserts that Ohio was the wealthiest and third most populous state in the U.S. at the turn of the last century.
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