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To: Monrose72

Both Hillary and Biden have roots in this region of Pennsylvania.


3 posted on 09/15/2019 6:22:05 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Not really.
Biden left at age 10, in 1952, when the area was still somewhat prosperous. He never experienced the hard years that followed, when anthracite coal faded out, and dress factories moved south and then to Mexico and Asia.
Hillary only briefly visited in summers to stay at her grandparents cottage on nearby Lake Winona, where the neighboring homes were the summer homes of the Scranton elites, doctors and lawyers.

Those who grew up there in the 50s and 60s endured hardships watching their parents lose their jobs, decline from black lung, destruction of their business sectors from urban renewal, and population decline 50%.

Biden and Clinton were growing up in comfortable surroundings in Delaware and Illinois.


8 posted on 09/15/2019 6:51:45 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: tired&retired

I believe Hillary has zero roots in Pennsylvania. She’s from an uppity area of Illinois. Then to AR with Bill. Then as an immigrant to NY to run for Senate. I could be wrong, but don’t think she has any PA connections.

Of course, Biden uses his “anthracite” PA roots to con the blue collar workers, but he left there before he was a teenager.

These people ...!!!


10 posted on 09/15/2019 6:58:00 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (A man's greatest strength is his greatest weakness.)
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