• PugJesusOP
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    2110 months ago

    West Virginia was so cool before the modern day. Now instead of anti-slavery and miner agitation, it’s Confederate flags and corporate simping.

    • @baldingpudenda
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      910 months ago

      Which I find ironic because of all the coal miner disputes including the Battle of Blair Mountain where workers had an actual fight with guns against the owner’s lackeys and it got so bad that the fucking president had to send in troops.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      210 months ago

      And the entire state was shaped by the New Deal tree planting efforts.