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Why was coal country still democratic well into the 1990s and early 2000s?
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:06 pm
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:06 pm
The democratic party has supported bigtime environmental regulations since the 1970s, yet only since 2004 has the coal areas really swing to the GOP. Now of course it is like 80-20, but john Kerry actually won a few of these counties in 2004, bill dominated there, and even gore did well.
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Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:07 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Unions
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:07 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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The democratic party has supported bigtime environmental regulations since the 1970s, yet only since 2004 has the coal areas really swing to the GOP. Now of course it is like 80-20, but john Kerry actually won a few of these counties in 2004, bill dominated there, and even gore did well.
Unions.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:08 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Unions
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:08 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Probably didn't feel the pinch until President Zero's second term.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:08 pm to Zahrim
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Unions
I third or fourth this.
They got what they asked for.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:09 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Unions
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:09 pm to TheArrogantCorndog
They didnt have the internet til 2010
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:09 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
The Dems running a black guy was the final straw to many in that part of the country.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:10 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Unions...plus Dems weren't openly and actively trying to destroy their way of life yet.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:12 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Democrats have always been the party of poor white trash.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:12 pm to udtiger
Cause Pawpaw always voted democrat
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:13 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Agree #1 answer is union loyalty to the dim party.
Second the really didn't think that the dimocrats were really retarded enough to attack coal and increase our dependence on OPEC. They found out that they were really really really wrong!
Second the really didn't think that the dimocrats were really retarded enough to attack coal and increase our dependence on OPEC. They found out that they were really really really wrong!
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:17 pm to udtiger
Post florida gore won the dem hearts and minds on global warming. Then policy changed bigly. Begore that it was a tusssle at conventions. Only recent clinton came right out and said to replace coal asap.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:17 pm to CelticDog
Begore before.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:19 pm to Zahrim
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Yep. Most people in the south who still vote Democrat do it because of their jobs.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:20 pm to CelticDog
Was that Begore or after The House of Saud bankrolled her entire campaign?
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:26 pm to The Boat
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The Dems running a black guy was the final straw to many in that part of the country.
Yea, the fact that the "black guy" promised to "bankrupt" the coal industry had absolutely nothing to do with it. Just a bunch of racist hicks that don't understand economics. The deplorables!
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:39 pm to Gaspergou202
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Just a bunch of racist hicks that don't understand economics.
Hillary who also hates coal crushed Obama in West Virginia in the 08 primaries and some nobody got 40% of the vote against Obama in the 2012 primaries with no campaigning. They hate him.
Posted on 12/5/16 at 9:39 pm to udtiger
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Unions...plus Dems weren't openly and actively trying to destroy their way of life yet.
What killed their way of life was an unwillingness to change or retrain themselves in the face of free markets and technological innovation. Trump isn't bringing those jobs back.
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