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Aristus

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5. I'd boycott West Va, except that I have no desire to ever visit there in the first place.

Reply to 47of74 (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 2, 2019, 11:23 AM

Mar 2019

I mean: what the hell for? To see a vast mountaintop-removal slag heap? Get threatening looks from inbred hillbillies who hate and distrust outsiders?

If this is an unfair stereotype of West Virginia, then please, will some advocate for West Virginia prove me wrong?

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Anti-Muslim Display Gets Tempers Flaring Around W.Va. House; Leads to Resignation, Injury [View all] Zorro Mar 2019 OP

As I posted in another discussion of this horrible display.... Staph Mar 2019 #1

sometimes I can't stand it yerop Mar 2019 #2

The poster and Omar's tweet, "no wonder I am on the 'hitlist'" progree Mar 2019 #3

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2019 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Mar 2019 #9

No wonder indeed ck4829 Mar 2019 #24

West Virginia needs to be boycotted 47of74 Mar 2019 #4

I'd boycott West Va, except that I have no desire to ever visit there in the first place. Aristus Mar 2019 #5

Is NYC full of rude people who will just as soon shove you out of the way as look at you? Jedi Guy Mar 2019 #6

Thank You Ginger Snapped Mar 2019 #11

Well said. appalachiablue Mar 2019 #17

Keep throwing... something will stick to wall if not that one. LanternWaste Mar 2019 #27

You're a real one-trick pony, you know that? N/T Jedi Guy Mar 2019 #28

mountain woman Ginger Snapped Mar 2019 #12

Yes. I hate this kind of bigotry, this kind of provincialism, this kind of backwardness. Aristus Mar 2019 #19

I'll bite my tongue and actually give you a resource Cal Carpenter Mar 2019 #13

Thanks for the post. JD Vance, self serving Silicon Valley appalachiablue Mar 2019 #16

"Appalachia Deserves More Than JD Vance" By Eliz. Catte, Feb. 1, 2018: appalachiablue Mar 2019 #22

I read it. Quite a while ago. Aristus Mar 2019 #18

Really? Because it just came out 2 weeks ago n/t Cal Carpenter Mar 2019 #20

You do this regularly and your invective for a place appalachiablue Mar 2019 #14

K&R Scurrilous Mar 2019 #7

NO NO NO Ginger Snapped Mar 2019 #10

Thanks, I know there are and were good Dems in WVa for sure. appalachiablue Mar 2019 #15

She's my Congresswoman, Scruffy1 Mar 2019 #21

Disgusting, but not unexpected. Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 #23

Horrible, but more of the same, and expect more ck4829 Mar 2019 #25

In my opinion, such hatred is never sucessful forklift Mar 2019 #26