pinotbear
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Okielite, Pennsylvania is an interesting state, demographically. The eastern 20% or so certainly feels NE - Philly, Allentown, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. (as I drive across the state, I often notice a change in the radio playlists, once I get west of Allentown. Lots more country music.). Then, when you travel around Gettysburg n' Chambersburg, and see that red clay soil, it feels like parts of Virginia.
Somebody in politics once described PA as "Philadelphia in the east, Pittsburg in the west, and Alabama in the middle". For all the eastern urban influence near Philly, and the mid-western proximity to Pittsburg, much of the central part of the state is farm country and energy/mining, and is pretty politically, socially and religiously conservative. Some of the reasons that PA is such a fascinating & contested "battleground" state in national elections.
Somebody in politics once described PA as "Philadelphia in the east, Pittsburg in the west, and Alabama in the middle". For all the eastern urban influence near Philly, and the mid-western proximity to Pittsburg, much of the central part of the state is farm country and energy/mining, and is pretty politically, socially and religiously conservative. Some of the reasons that PA is such a fascinating & contested "battleground" state in national elections.