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izquierdista

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7. You might want to check your geography

Reply to Cal33 (Reply #6)

Tue Apr 3, 2012, 09:49 AM

Apr 2012

Last time I checked, Kentucky and West Virginia were Union states during the Civil War, West Virginia going so far as to secede from Virginia to rejoin the union. They may be poor and backward, but that's the Appalachia showing, not the Confederacy.

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