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Does your cousin live in WVA. Robert Byrd is a popular figure there. As one Mountaineer told me, ‘We don't care how corrupt he was and whether he was in the KKK or not. Robert Bryd used his office to pump a lot of money into this state which is normally treated as the bastard child of America, lower on the totem pole than Samoa. Bryd was the only reason we have some decent roads and there are a lot of health clinics and educational programs that he saw were funded. Dick Nixon signed the Clean Air Act without even reading it and the particulate matter requirements literally destroyed the coal industry here. Barrack ABM comes along and by executive fiat makes up standards that are even worse. We are a poor state and since we are mostly white and a lot of us are very old stock Anglo-Scots we are the one state and people that the political culture can defecate on and get laughs for it. Bryd was a crook but he helped us and no one else ever gave a crap about our state. The man was mostly right IMHO.