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This isn't about the votes from coal miners. It's about what coal stands for in the minds of rural white voters.

• yessql 10y ago
  Exactly right. Coal mining as a job has declined much more than coal as fuel. It's just easier to blame regulations and outsourcing than to admit that people can't compete with machines in energy production and manufacturing.
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