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maxsolomon

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4. Anecdotally, my suburban Cincinnati family,

Reply to TheKentuckian (Reply #3)

Mon Nov 25, 2013, 01:27 PM

Nov 2013

Republicans all (except myself and my siblings), do not have Appalachians in our Irish/German family. Maybe in Kentucky suburbanites have country cousins, but I'm speaking of the majority of suburban GOP voters.

You're right that they despise Appalachians - but to a slightly lesser degree than urban blacks. And they don't really know any - maybe they buy gas from them on the way to tool around Lake Cumberland or something, but they don't KNOW their circumstances enough to have empathy.

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