Possibly the only Union state to wish they'd picked the other side.

Which is really bizarre in the context of so many Ohioans forming the cream of Union leadership, including (of course) Sherman and Grant.

The last decade has explicitly been about the dregs of American society throwing off the oppression of the "cream".

Taste, humor, class, style, talent, wisdom, learning? Bah!

Yet Grant was buried in NY. He must have had a premonition of what a shit hole Ohio would become.

My wife's family is from the state. She reckons you can measure the success of its famous figures by how far away they managed to get, hence Neil Armstrong.