http://justsaynow.firedoglake.com/2013/01/18/majority-of-west-virginia-voters-support-medical-marijuana/ Legalize marijuana Sat, 18 May 2013 10:36:58 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://justsaynow.firedoglake.com/2013/01/18/majority-of-west-virginia-voters-support-medical-marijuana/#comment-6987 solerso Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:40:06 +0000 http://justsaynow.firedoglake.com/?p=3820#comment-6987 West Virginia not only has a large senior poulation they also have a large transplant population (no pun intended). West Virginia and i speak from deep, lifelong experience)is kind of like a red neck Vermont. It has a large population of displaced, transplanted white urban refugees, but they are (largely) working class "conservatives" and not (as much) college educated liberals. They are from the devastated, blasted, ruined, working class neighborhoods of Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Washington, Philladelphia and the formerly industrial towns and cities of Ohio. As a group they tend to be in thier mid 40's and up - NOT a demographic historically hostile to pot, to say the least. But they are also carrying the same baggage of working class whites elsewhere, the tragically (but by no means accidentally) misplaced rage at "libruls" and minorities at the destruction of the real economy, thier future and the future of thier children and grandchildren - a crime which has the claw marks and ligature of finance capitalism all over it, of course, but try telling them that. So, WVa., as a "Red State" is very different from Oklahoma, or the Texas panhandle, or Iowa, per se. West Virginia not only has a large senior poulation they also have a large transplant population (no pun intended). West Virginia and i speak from deep, lifelong experience)is kind of like a red neck Vermont. It has a large population of displaced, transplanted white urban refugees, but they are (largely) working class “conservatives” and not (as much) college educated liberals. They are from the devastated, blasted, ruined, working class neighborhoods of Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Washington, Philladelphia and the formerly industrial towns and cities of Ohio. As a group they tend to be in thier mid 40′s and up – NOT a demographic historically hostile to pot, to say the least. But they are also carrying the same baggage of working class whites elsewhere, the tragically (but by no means accidentally) misplaced rage at “libruls” and minorities at the destruction of the real economy, thier future and the future of thier children and grandchildren – a crime which has the claw marks and ligature of finance capitalism all over it, of course, but try telling them that. So, WVa., as a “Red State” is very different from Oklahoma, or the Texas panhandle, or Iowa, per se.

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