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As one leader in this effort [to counter liberal public interest movements nationally], Thomas A. Roe, an anti-union construction magnate from Greenville, SC, reportedly declared to a fellow trustee at the Heritage Foundation during the 1980s, "You capture the Soviet Union -- I'm going to capture the states."
Roe went on to found the State Policy Network in 1992, a national coalition of conservative state-based think tanks. By 2012, the network had sixty-four separate think tanks turning out cookie-cutter-like policy papers, including at least one hub in every state....