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Appalachia

appalachiablue

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2. For the record, add to the article's incomplete last sentence,

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Sat Feb 11, 2017, 12:13 AM

Feb 2017

Last edited Sat Feb 11, 2017, 12:45 AM - Edit history (1)

"Clinton lost every single county in Tuesday's West Virginia Primary"-- "to Bernie Sanders."

Rust Belt Michigan also voted for Bernie, funny that.

The low population of the Appalachian region did not decide the final election.

Loyal Blue WVa. voted heavily Democratic, from the 1930s through the 1980s while Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan of the Western Front of the GOP paddled, picked and pushed their ultra right conservative agenda and Southern strategy from 1968 as fast as they could. Reality Left Coast. People remember.

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