I live on the edge of SE Ohio Appalachia. There might be 10 blacks in my entire town. They're simply not welcome. I still hear the n-word daily around here. It's sad. I told a couple of neighbors that I was backing Blackwell and "they looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears".
Yeah, Ripley OH is a weird place. If you didn't know better, you'd think you were in Kentucky or something with all the kids hanging out on weekends smoking in public and all. Wait a minute. Kentucky is just over the hill on US25!
Actually, it was a pretty nice place.
Isn't Mr. Blackwell that little twerp in the bow tie who provides us with snide remarks concerning celebrity fashion?
I know, I grew up there.
Thankfully, the populations of those counties are small enough that it shouldn't hurt Blackwell too much.