I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
I grew up in Illinois.
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.
I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.
I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.
I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing.
To give you some background, I represent the largest manufacturing district and the largest agricultural district in Ohio.