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submitted 2 days ago by pinballwizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/196

Although modern politics has changed things, rednecks have historically been anti authority and pro labor. Building a rural/urban alliance like Bill Clinton did would genuinely create an entirely new era of politics that would be friendly to liberal leftist ideologies.

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[-] djsoren19 9 points 1 day ago

this may come as a shock, but things have dramatically changed in the last 105 years

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

You mean big companies no longer work with the government to interfere with workers trying to unionize?

[-] prole 3 points 1 day ago

More like decades of anti-union propaganda, plus culture war bullshit, have conditioned the people of West Virginia (and the US as a whole) to be against unions

Nah they have fighter jets though.

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