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mackdaddy

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3. A lot of Fox news watching Republicans now though.

Reply to iandhr (Reply #2)

Mon Mar 23, 2015, 04:39 PM

Mar 2015

My family is from there. All my aunts and uncles were Union coal mining Democrats. Now nearly All their children my cousins are Fox New junkies.

I can not talk politics with them any more when I go back for a visit. And I do not follow any of them on facebook as it is just a continuous screed of anti-Obama nonsense.

And the state government has been taken over by the repubs now. And they are busy trying to implement the ALEC written attacks on renewable energy many other republican controlled states are going for.

http://www.fayettetribune.com/opinion/editorials/west-virginia-s-monopoly-utilities-launch-a-two-pronged-attack/article_bba4c5d2-ae4a-11e4-b4c0-237330702eb0.html

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tusk-west-virginia-utilities-resort-to-deceiving-senators-to-eliminate-rooftop-solar-300035021.html

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Coal State of WV in Transition to Solar Energy [View all] Panich52 Mar 2015 OP

West Virginia has NEVER benefited from its coal. nakocal Mar 2015 #1

Sorry to bring facts into the discussion. iandhr Mar 2015 #2

A lot of Fox news watching Republicans now though. mackdaddy Mar 2015 #3

No doubt iandhr Mar 2015 #4

Dems weren't always so liberal, esp south of Mason-Dixon line. And being a poor, exploited Dem does Panich52 Mar 2015 #5

Agree with you 100% iandhr Mar 2015 #6

Except that the owners of the coal mines have historically been republicans nakocal Mar 2015 #7

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