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Trump absolutely dominates Appalachia (xpost from GD_ (Original Post) KamaAina May 2016 OP
Because of one word: "coal" Panich52 Jul 2016 #1
For the record, add to the article's incomplete last sentence, appalachiablue Feb 2017 #2
The President of Appalacian people... Shell_Seas Feb 2017 #3

Panich52

(5,829 posts)
1. Because of one word: "coal"
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 07:25 PM
Jul 2016

I understand my fellow Hillbillies' concern f/ what's become a culture, but I hope reality finally breaks through the fog. State govts need to stop pandering to coal CEOs and doing more to find ways to rebuild economies on something other than environmentally destructive, water-ruining, black lung causing, scenic despoiling coal.

BTW, notice tornadoes increasing in southern WV? Coal mountaintopping has reduced the wind breaks that used to kill those winds.

appalachiablue

(42,908 posts)
2. For the record, add to the article's incomplete last sentence,
Sat Feb 11, 2017, 12:13 AM
Feb 2017

Last edited Sat Feb 11, 2017, 12:45 AM - Edit history (1)

"Clinton lost every single county in Tuesday's West Virginia Primary"-- "to Bernie Sanders."

Rust Belt Michigan also voted for Bernie, funny that.

The low population of the Appalachian region did not decide the final election.

Loyal Blue WVa. voted heavily Democratic, from the 1930s through the 1980s while Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan of the Western Front of the GOP paddled, picked and pushed their ultra right conservative agenda and Southern strategy from 1968 as fast as they could. Reality Left Coast. People remember.

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