environmentalists and Eastern and Mid- western industrialists and labor unions aggrieved over "disproportion- ate" subsidies to the West-angered Westerners by limiting grazing, logging, and mining on public lands and by restricting the availability of cheap water and electric power. Such restrictions threatened to snuff out a regional economic boom.
To many Westerners, Washington's subsidies seemed to bring more trouble than they were worth. In 1979, Nevada's state legislators kicked...