[lbo-talk] my weekend in "real" virginia

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 27 04:33:02 PDT 2008


On Oct 26, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Thomas Seay wrote:
>>
>> C'ville, you're already in Communist Virginia :) Abingdon, you're
>> almost in the Real Virginia, IMHO. Now go to Tazewell, Wytheville,
>> Galax. Those are the real Virginia that I know. How many Obama
>> signs do you see there? If you see more than a few there, then I
>> will be really impressed.
>
> These are all-white areas?

Yup. The explanation I heard back when I used to hang out around there was that "black people just don't like the hills." Genetic, I suppose.

Doug



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