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I have misplaced my pants.
Recruiting in the South, especially in Appalachia, began in the 30s. My dad and uncles bitched about the hillbillies that were shipped to Dayton to break the strikes in GM factories. Columbus recruited a lot of rednecks for police - the start of a long running feud between the university and the cops.
The roots go even deeper than the 30s and explain a good deal of the difference between Cleveland - primarily settled by families from Connecticut and other New England states as part of the Western Reserve and later by Mennonites from Germany and Cincinnati, settled mostly by people from Virginia and Maryland.
That's interesting. I never really thought about that before.
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