[Vigilanteman]

A little history is in order here. Montana elected Jeanette Rankin to the U.S. Senate before the 18th amendment was even voted out of congress. Her main claim to fame is as the only person in congress who voted against our entry in to both World War I and World War II.

The western states were way ahead of the rest of the country in women's rights. Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Colorado and Montana were the first to give them the right to vote and hold office. Part of the motivation was because the men wanted to attract the more sturdy women from the east to come out and settle.

[Arthur McGowan]

And government started growing in those states as soon as women got the vote. And the federal government started growing in 1919. (Not counting the explosion of government during Wilson’s war.