euphemistically name 'right to work' movement had succeeded in 20 southern and western states with relatively little union density between end of ww2 and mid-50s (florida was first state to enact something, in 1944, and not as legislative statute, but as constitutional amendment), buoyed by these victories, so-called 'right to workers' became jubliant when, in 1957, indiana became first highly industrialized, strong union state to jump on \ board bandwagon to restrict union security...
1958 would be different story as 'right to work' suffered significant defeat, only one of six states with 'right to work' ballot measures that year was there adoption - kansas, where business faced small union movement (louisiana and idaho, for example, had greater union density and measures were rejected in those states)...
perhaps what's wrong with kansas is pretty much same thing that was wrong with kansas back then (such states, including, quite obviously, florida, offered u.s. look at present-day)... michael hoover
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