There's no state that, that's hurt this globalization movement over the last several decades more than the state of West Virginia. I mean, We've been at the forefront of that destruction that's been wrought upon the working class people of this country. So that's why for me this is just innate and it didn't always comport with being a Republican at the time. It wasn't, you know, in the Bush Cheney plan, I'll tell you that much. (06:56–07:04)
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Asserts that West Virginia has been at the forefront of the negative impacts of globalization on the working class in the U.S.
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