It ranks 7th in population and gross state product, 30th in per capita personal income, 6th and 5th, respectively, for business and personal bankruptcies, 18th in annual income, 28th in people living in poverty, 6th in senior population, 5th in union workers, 37th as the most livable state and 4th in greenhouse gas emissions.
Not in the same category but curiously connected all the same, The Ohio State University, a venerable behemoth of college sports, is now 2nd to The Florida Gators in college football and basketball. But I digress.
Even though the one-time titan of industry now finds itself rubbing shoulders in a number of areas with perennial low-tax, low-performing bottom dwellers like Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana as a new governor attempts a turnaround of its lagging economy, it is seen by many politicians and political pundits in one key category – who will be the nation’s next president – as Number One.
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