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riverbendviewgal

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6. To understand these people a little better

Reply to loudsue (Reply #4)

Sun May 27, 2012, 12:18 PM

May 2012

one should read Joe Bageant....a libertine who died last year. I read both his books and read his blog as well. He and I exchanged emails a few months before he died.

He could write about these people because he knew them well as he was born in Winchester, Virgina He wrote how the Republican party gets these people to not vote for Democrats....

Check it out. http://www.joebageant.com/

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