Last week, the New York Times ran a story asserting that Indiana is a status quo kind of place, and maybe not the most hospitable state to a change message.
Brian Howey of Howey Politics Indiana begs to differ:
"Want to talk about change? How about Philo T. Farnsworth, another eccentric from Fort Wayne, who had a very strange lab in his basement and helped bring to the world … television. Or how about Wabash, Ind., which became the first electrically lit city in the world?
"Hoosiers have made all sorts of other contributions that changed the world, like 2 percent milk, the Coca-Cola bottle, tomato juice and Alka-Seltzer (born in the Elkhart Truth newsroom for an editor with a peptic stomach). The Bloody Mary wouldn’t exist without Hoosier intellect. Indiana broke the Big Ten color barrier and was home to the first African-American female millionaire (Madam Walker). Three years ago, a woman - Danica Patrick - came within an eyelash of winning the Indianapolis 500, and might be favored to win it this year after becoming the first woman to win a major series race earlier this month...."
So, now you know.