Polishprince
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Actually they weren’t that poor when they had good paying mining jobs.Sadly, it’s white people in Appalachia that have been victimized by the GOP
We all know I’ve posted the facts on Appalachian many times. That there are white people living in Appalachia who have no running water and no electricity and who get their heat in the winter by chopping down trees around their cardboard and plywood shacks.
They aren’t being educated. The kids are moving away. This is a devastated area that votes overwhelmingly GOP in every election.
Why would they do that? Because they think their stuff is going to be taken away by Democrats? And yet, don’t have anything.
Democrats are making a huge mistake by not going after the vote in the Appalachian area. Make these people understand how the Republican elite is using these people as backwoods voters.
And their arguments so far against Democrats? The Democrats only make promises they can’t keep and Democrats want to take your stuff.
Republicans know they can count on tens of millions of votes from this repressed and tragic part of United States. Because they’re voting about race and not economy or education or their children.
Actually, West Virginia was ruled for many decades by the Democrats and they were always one of the poorest states in the union.
Indeed, the mountaineers voted for Clinton, Carter and even the Hapless Michael Dukakis.
Only in recent years,after the demise of Robert Byrd, have they really started tilting Republican.
But, in actuality, the Democrats should go to Appalachia next year. Make their case that they will bring heaven on earth to West Virginia, Kentucky, etc.
Its been quite a while since coal was king.