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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:00 AM

Some thoughts about West Virginia

An Obama supporter lashes out at political allies who've scorned Clinton's white working-class backers. It's worth reading.
Joan Walsh

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  • Wednesday, May 14, 2008 09:10 PM

    @uncoolCynthia

    Sorry, your history is wrong. West Virginia became a state in 1863. That's DURING the Civil War, not reconstruction. WV was already a state during Reconstruction, so how could it have become a state to avoid reconstruction? And except for the southern border counties the state was strongly pro-union. Go back to school.

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