On Oct 27, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Thomas Seay wrote:
> I know Doug wrote that in jest, but if you go to my hometown of
> Welch, West Virginia (much hillier and more mountainous than
> anyplace in Virginia), just over the mountain than those places I
> mentioned, there are a fairly high percentage of blacks. So, the
> fact that those places in southern Virginia have so few blacks has
> got more to do with the lingering legacy of the Confederacy.
Well the whole state was the capital of the Confederacy, and though Virginia is the whitest of the southern states (or close to it), the eastern portion does have a fairly large black pop. So it mustn't be just about the Confederacy - there must be something particularly insular and unwelcoming about the hillbillies.
Doug