This was the fire which tempered Idaho's citizenry. And like the potato, the lamb and the bean, the citizenry is of excellent quality. From Kansas, from Nebraska, from the Dakotas, from the east, the middle west and the south they came. Of varied habits, accents and natures. But Idaho's melting pot has made them one.
Idaho citizenry reflects the characteristics of the state.
The wide spaces are seen in our friendliness. The agreeable climate has a counterpart in our sunny natures. Our happiness can be traced to nature's joys. The mighty, awe-inspiring mountains, the great plains, the forests and the climate have joined hands in the task of human character building. The Kansas school teacher, the New Jersey bookkeeper, the Dakota wheat grower, the Pennsylvania foundryman and the Vermont factory worker have rubbed shoulders in Idaho irrigation ditches and emerged - just Idahoans.