Idaho

He was the most plain, down to earth, candid politician I have ever met.
He acted as if he was just another citizen, a regular guy.
In 1982, the Republicans that were in the state legislature at the time wouldn't lift a finger to help him stabilize the state's economy after the Sunshine Mine disaster closed that mine.
I remember when he made a public plea on tv for someone to step forward and buy out the mine to keep it from closing, and I thought to myself that had to be the strangest thing he ever said in public.
Jobs were disappearing from Idaho in droves, and the Reagan Recession didn't end here until 1988.