Posted on 05/04/2016 9:58:11 AM PDT by Milhous
During his victory speech Tuesday night after the Indiana primary, Donald Trump emphasized a region that could be ground zero for support: Appalachia.
The miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, Ohio and all over, theyre going to start to work again, Trump said. We are not going to be like Hillary Clinton, he said, taking aim at her ill-timed remarks last more for which she ultimately apologized.
Once upon a time in coal country -- states stretching along the Appalachian Mountains and the Marcellus Shale, a formation rich in underground resources like natural gas and coal -- the Clinton name reigned.
Back in 1992, then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton won counties in Appalachia with over 70 percent of the vote in the general election. Flash forward to 2016, and West Virginia, which holds its primary next Tuesday, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and southern Ohio are home to the strongest pockets of Trump support in the country.
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You could include Indiana in the same group. Trump won all but two counties in Indiana. Boatloads of disaffected blue collar workers that want jobs.
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Wrong state. Thank you for the correction. There are so many DU moonbats from that state I assumed it was true.
So says the FReeper from CA. LOL!!!
“So says the FReeper from CA. LOL!!!”
Yes you do! And so do we, but WVA has been RAT a lot longer than we have. California will never return to it’s place as the #1 state in the country in which I grew up in the 1950’s and 60’s until we purge our RAT leadership. Probably the most likely outcome here will be untimately the state going broke. And for me, that cannot happen soon enough. A Trump Presidency would help facilitate that if he manages to cut off the flow of Federal bucks to this state, as he has said he will do to foreign governments. Jery Brown is Hillary in pants! Trump has to seriously lower taxes and hence grants to the states. Then those states who’ve had access to a Federal Tit, will face some tough sledding. I just hope I live long enough to see it take place!
The Trump plane is going to get quite a workout in the months ahead.
Luckily he’s got a bunch of them, LOL.
Indeed
The folks here still love their trial lawyers, their disability fraud, and their government cheese.
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