The most unionized states in America, ranked

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : As an early leader in the mining, railroad, coal, and agriculture industries, Pennsylvania played a critical role in America's formative organized labor movements.
54% : According to the Lawrence Journal-World, early labor opponents in Kansas were successful in exploiting fears of communism and integration to fracture a long-standing alliance between farmers and industry workers.
49% : The infighting waned when the two groups seemed to find common ground, as large numbers of oil workers shifted to clean-energy jobs making wind turbines as oil industry employment stagnated.
42% : Through the organization, he leveraged contemporary fears to successfully link unions with both integration and communism in the public imagination, while crafting the first right-to-work laws in Texas.
38% : Like Kentucky, West Virginia was a primary battleground for the coal wars, where mining bosses and their collaborators in law enforcement and government terrorized, arrested, evicted, harassed, and murdered labor leaders and union members.

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