Ohio is part of the Northwest Territory from the Treaty of Paris. The first frontier. The first chance for the government to put the system we created into action. The first new states. Ohio. And Ohioans took it seriously. They didn’t play around with slavery or greed. They were earnest people. You needed canal-building OCD Germans. That’s what Ohio had; it wasn’t a state that seemed like it had a lot of resources to get rich, so you had to really want to be just a hardworking farmer. If you got injured, you had nothing coming and that’s what you got. And they are still like that. Always in
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