Reply #24: Warminster, Bucks County here.

[americanstranger]

It was truly a small town when I lived there in the early Sixties, in a community that was formerly government housing and was converted to low-income housing. When I was a kid there were still farms within walking distance from where I lived. I go back there now and I barely recognize the place.

My family grew up in smaller towns in Coal Country - Centralia, Avondale, Nanticoke. Those towns were dying back when I was still a kid, and my generation grew up in Bucks because many of the young people born in Coal Country moved away when they got their first chance.

What Obama is speaking about has been going on in states like PA for a long, long time. No one has ever come out and said that the reason it's gone on is because the 'little people' in rural areas get very little from the Clinton/McCain elites in DC.

- as