Obama Loses West Virginia Delegates To Prison Inmate

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10. Yep I live here

and I put up with it every day. The counties in WV that carried this fed inmate are coal counties. Do not get me wrong. There are some good, kind, issue educated people everywhere, including these places. But. There is a strong race aversion involved. The decline of coal over the decades here is crystalized around the race aversion because of denial of the coal decline.

This article by Jeff Goodell of Rolling Stone is a great read....and yes that photo of mountaintop removal is real and undoctored.....http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/the-coming-decline-and-fall-of-big-coal-20110928

They love coal because the short term means getting a job out of high school and getting paid for the here and now. Their vision isn't collectively long enough to see that their health, their environment, and their futures are tied to an industry that keeps its profits away from the community it extracts from. The overall health of these folks includes early onset diabetes, lung and breathing problems, crippling injuries from mine accidents, and cancers that come from heavy metals and byproducts from coal.


As far as race, WV will be stuck in the Confederate days until.........? Alot of the younger people here do not see the big deal with a man of mixed race holding the highest office in the land. The older, white scripturists that keep their guns in the living room while the kids watch cartoons on the couch drinking Mountain Dew aren't gonna change no matter what. Their welfare, Social Security dollars, their SSI assistance, and their Medicare Disability will keep coming on in along with that huge mental smokescreen that tells them that this administration had nothing to do with any of it. (sigh)