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Patrick Morrisey: “That's why we lost a congressional seat.”

Featuring: Patrick Morrisey, Republican | Governor of West Virginia

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Gov. Morrisey Discusses Rural Health Outcomes in Fairmont

Published | Video Starts at 18:07

Now I'll tell you, we're making some progress on that. We've seen a net migration in recent years, but unfortunately there have been more deaths than births over the last number of years. That's why we lost a congressional seat. We have to reverse that, accelerate that net migration. And we have to do that through a lot of the incentives to let people know about wild and wonderful West Virginia. (18:07–18:10)

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Asserts that the loss of a congressional seat is due to demographic changes in West Virginia.

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