In 1948, a young George HW Bush had just graduated from Yale and he needed a way to make a living. His uncle offered him a job at a prominent Wall St firm, which would've allowed Bush's family to remain in Connecticut while he worked in NYC. But instead Bush decided to relocate Texas and try his hand at the oil business. By the 1950s he was a multimillionaire, and in the 1960s he started getting politically active as a Texas Republican.
But what if Bush had decided to take the Wall St job and stay in Connecticut?