Obama supporters say NICE things about West Virginia

[barack the house]

I think it is very unproductive to be negative about any state. Wiser to focus on a state positives to have any chance of earning their vote or vote in future years. So please, list some nice things about west virginia.


First great thing is the Bob Kincaid show.

[AllentownJake]

1. Can't do it

I'm from PA...and don't ask me to recognize NJ either.

[burythehatchet]

2. awesome whitewater rafting

but you have to worry about getting ass raped. Oh wait, that's where I live, Georgia. :rofl:

[grantcart]

3. the WV DUers have been very insightful about their home state

I am glad I understand it a little bit better.

Sounds like a lot of folks have it hard there and wouldn't it be great if WV leads the nation in re-electing President Obama in 2012

[Mz Pip]

4. My hubby

Mr Pip was born there.

[Faygo Kid]

5. Harper's Ferry is a great place to visit for a day. Fascinating.

On the flip side, I think West Virginia drivers may be the worst in the nation. And that includes Florida and New York.

[Ichingcarpenter]

Harper was my great great great uncle.

My ties to West Virginia

Robert Harper (Harper's Ferry) was a great, great, great uncle on my mother's side, we went to Harper's Ferry many times growing up.

In 1751, Robert Harper was given a patent on 125 acres (0.5 km²) at the present location of the town. In 1761, Harper established a ferry across the Potomac making the town a starting point for settlers moving into the Shenandoah Valley and further west. In 1763, the Virginia General Assembly established the town of "Shenandoah Falls at Mr. Harper's Ferry."

On October 25, 1783, Thomas Jefferson visited Harpers Ferry. He viewed "the passage of the Potomac though the Blue Ridge" from a rock which is now named for him. Jefferson was actually on his way to Philadelphia and passed through Harpers Ferry with his daughter Patsy. Jefferson called the site "perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpers_Ferry,_West_Virgin ...

My Grandfather on my father's side was a poor coal miner in West Virginia and Kentucky
during the coal mining wars of 1900-1910, he had a 6th grade education, was a bigoted, xenophobic
but lovable old coot who died of black lung disease.



Growing up in Virginia, my dad would take us camping in the fall, up
on the Seneca Creek, West Virginia, on some land that his friend farmed.

http://dnr.md.gov/publiclands/central/seneca.html

I loved the land back then but haven't been back since my youth.

[Faygo Kid]

28. Fascinating! A brush with history.

It's just a great place to take out-of-town guests for a day (I live in Maryland), and so very historically important.

It may have grown into a bigger town eventually, but huge floods at intervals over the years prevented it. But what a great place, and just beautiful, too. Thanks for the historic info!

[DearAbby]

6. Gorgeous state, absolutely stunning scenery

This from a Rocky Mountain baby..

[City Lights]

7. Homer Hickam is one of their rocket boys.

:loveya:

[meow mix]

8. uh, no.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Some of them are Obama supporters.

[barack the house]

15. Yes, which we should never forget. I for one appreciate all the work they've done down there on his

part.

[redqueen]

10. It's GORGEOUS.

And Jesco White is from there.

And it's beautiful.

And I bet there are people in those hills that can sing songs so beautifully, that they would make me cry. I know it, actually.

And music... musicians whose talents will never be appreciated as much as they could be... maybe should be.

And it's breathtakingly beautiful.

[Catherina]

12. How could you?

How could you beat me to it? That's what I wanted to say. It's the most beautiful state I've ever visited!

[redqueen]

36. Sorry!

:P

I'd like to visit someday... I've only seen pictures.

[cali]

44. It is beautiful but I don't think it's as beautiful

as Hawaii or Vermont.

[Catherina]

57. I've never been to either of those

but I imagine they're stunning. The thing I liked about W. Vir was that it was like a big playground with all the green and lakes. I was a kid at the time but it left good memories.

[cali]

60. WV is a lot like Vermont except Vermont is more pastoral and has no billboards

or flashy anything. More lakes and fields too.

[LisaM]

11. I'm not an Obama supporter, BUT I have something nice to say

about WV - we drove through there ten or fifteen years ago, and it was one of the most beautiful places I'd ever been in my life.

[Aloha Spirit]

13. They have very accurate speed limit signs. If it says 15mph, you really shouldn't drive over 15 mph.

You'll probably careen off the side of the mountain.

[Cant trust em]

18. I actually stomped my foot in laughter when I read that.

accurate speed limit signs.

[Aloha Spirit]

24. haha, it's true though, right? If it says 10 mph, that is the actual limit of speed before you die.

[Cant trust em]

27. Are you writing this from beyond the grave?

DU is haaaauuuunted.

[Aloha Spirit]

29. Yep, I just had fiberoptic cable installed.

[Aloha Spirit]

23. Also, Dolly Sods, skiing, the farmland, milk trucks, laid back people, old time music,

fresh air, hiking trails, horses, neat accents, all the veterans, all the brave people who contributed to this country's history...

[BayouBengal07]

14. I am grateful to WVU

The Mountaineers choked against Pitt and let LSU back into the national championship game. Had they won, WVU would have been playing in New Orleans for all the marbles instead of my Tigers.

I don't mind West Virginia...

[DJ13]

16. Its not Florida

No Debbie Wasserman Schultz yappin away 24 hours per day about counting an illegal primary has to be a plus.

[HockeyMom]

17. They just plain don't really KNOW her

from a former New Yorker

[Ken Burch]

19. "Mountain Stage" is a great radio and tv program with great music.

And the state was born out of a heroic act of defiance against the bloodthirsty Confederate reactionaries in Virginia, from which state West Virginia seceded in 1861 IIRC.

And the miners were heroes of the U.S. labor movement.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

I luv WV!!!!

[kwenu]

20. If you don't have anything good to say...

[El Supremo]

21. Some famous West Virginians

Booker T. Washington - Black educational leader and the first president of Tuskegee Institute, raised in Malden, Kanawha County.

Brad Paisley - Country music star and actor, born in Glen Dale.

Brigadier General Charles Yeager, U.S.A.F Retired - first person to fly faster than the speed of sound, was born in Myra, Lincoln County.

Carter G. Woodson - educator, author and the father of Black History Month, was raised in Huntington, Cabell County.

Cyrus R. Vance - Secretary of State from 1977 to 1980 during the administration of President Jimmy Carter, was born in Clarksburg.

Hal Greer - member of the basketball hall of fame, was raised in Huntington, Cabell County.

Homer H. Hickam, Jr. - Author of Rocket Boys: A Memoir, the story of his life in the little town of Coalwood, WV that Inspired the #1 Bestseller and Award-Winning Movie October Sky.

Jerry West - former professional basketball star of the Los Angeles Lakers, was born in Cabin Creek, Kanawha County.

John C. Norman, MD - distinguished surgeon and pioneer in organ transplant techniques, was born in Charleston, Kanawha County.

Mary Lou Retton - 1984 Olympic Gold Medal winner in gymnastics is from Fairmont, Marion County.

Pearl S. Buck - Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winning author was born in Hillsboro, Pocahontas County.

Sam Snead - world famous golfer, resides in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County.

Samuel W. Starks - Local and national leader of Knights of Pythias fraternal order was raised in Charleston, Kanawha County.

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson - born in Clarksburg, Harrison County. The Confederate General’s boyhood home became the first state 4-H Club Camp in the United States.

Walter P. Reuther - former president of the United Auto Workers (AFL-CIO), was born in Wheeling, Ohio County.

[BeyondGeography]

22. and Bill Withers

[theboss]

33. Ahem...Don Knotts, Chuck Yeager, and Sam Huff want a word with you

That may be our Holy Trinity.

[MattBaggins]

42. You forgot D Ray White

and Jesco

Shame on you

[qazplm]

ummmm

at least it's not Mississippi?

[julialnyc]

25. Jennifer Garner is from there

[bluestateguy]

26. They made the right choice in the Civil War

nt

[rucky]

30. Bluegrass

[redqueen]

37. Hell yes. (nt)

[melody]

31. The Appalachians represents the cradle of American culture

They have wonderful folk art and mythology going back hundreds of years. West Virginia suffers from an intense poverty unequaled in this country and the people there are brave.

[L0oniX]

32. The state is very nice. It's the majority of the people that live there that suck.

[theHandpuppet]

35. Nice.

:puke:

[AtomicKitten]

34. "West Virginia: One Big Happy Family, Really"

http://www.cafepress.com/funnystatetees.67228628

[MattBaggins]

38. Way down in West Virginia

there are people who are one of a kind
they don't need nothin from nobody
cause their already doin fine
You got Hasil Adkins hunchin',
An' Mamie's raisin' hell.
The legend of D Ray White,
Will never die like a rebel yell.

An' ol' Jesco's dancin' in his Daddy's shoes.
Yeah, ol' Hasil's still hunchin' out
them Boone County blues.
(Boone County blues.)
An' ol' Mamie, you know she's done some time in jail.
The legend of D Ray White will
never die like a rebel yell.

Birty Mae White, she's the strongest woman,
That I've ever met in my life.
She raised over twenty-four of her own,
An' had to watch her husband dyin'.
She's always fightin' hard,
An' livin' off the land.
When she's done livin' in this world,
You know, the Lord's gonna take her by her hand.

An' ol' Jesco's dancin' in his Daddy's shoes.
Yeah, ol' Hasil's still hunchin' out
them Boone County blues.
An' Mamie, you know she's still raisin' hell.
The legend of D Ray White will
never die like a rebel yell.
Yeah, the legend of D Ray White will
never die like a rebel yell.

[BlooInBloo]

39. The land itself is gorgeous.

[rodeodance]

40. I believe WV’ian’s are a forgiving and may eventually forgive the BHO folk who demeaned them!! *****

[bowens43]

41. It's a beautiful state. I love it. I vacation there.

I especially love Seneca Rocks and that entire area. I have never been treated badly by any of the locals. They were always friendly , kind and helpful. I can honestly say that I have never had a bad experience in West Virgina.

Sure wish they'ed vote for Obama

[Ian David]

43. At least they're not Georgia. n/t

[Justitia]

52. Hey! GA went for Obama by a 35+ point difference - they are my new peeps!

We'll have to see how bad the WV damage is....

[Withywindle]

45. Bill Blizzard

When Miners March: http://www.whenminersmarch.com/

Sid Hatfield: http://www.wvculture.org/history/labor/matewan04.html

Battle of Blair Mountain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain



For the record, much of our stereotypes of hillbillies come from industrialist newspapers of the period--trying to paint mountain people as ignorant and violent and subhuman, so whatever Big Coal did to them was OK.

[stray cat]

46. Coal country - Hard working miners who risk their life and health to give the rest of us energy

[mohc]

47. I used to live in North Hills (near Parkersburg)

I found the overwhelming majority of people that I interacted with to be very friendly and compassionate.

[rndmprsn]

48. its where my "people" on my fathers side were from...

basically traveling over from VA and before that from England.

these are hard working really warm people folks...and the state geography is beautiful too...my Grandmother is from WV and so is my Grandfather

[FloridaJudy]

49. West Virginia: Saner than Florida

Of course, I could say that about a lot of states.

[mohc]

54. Seconded

As someone that has lived in WV (see upthread) and now resides in FL, I definitely concur.

[izzybeans]

50. I once had a wild time in a tent there.

And a nice place to raft.

[redsoxrudy]

51. Lighten up

Making fun of people from other states is a pastime enjoyed by people of all states. As long as it doesn't get too nasty I usually just laugh it off. This phenomenon seems to get more intense the further east you go. I have lived in AZ and WA and they both just made fun of CA. I now live in WI and the mocking of other states is much more intense. Re IL: "pennyheads"," flatlanders" and my favorite Re IN:"It's not the midwest it's the middle finger sticking up from the South."

[nxylas]

53. My wife is from there

And that's good enough to justify its existence to me.

[dchill]

55. "Almost heaven, West Virginia...

Blue ridge mountains
Shenandoah river -
Life is old there
Older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growin like a breeze"

by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver

That's pretty nice, eh?

[eleny]

56. I'm listening to Bob's program today

He's a treasure and the only southern liberal broadcasting these days.

Streaming audio here http://whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html

[Kittycat]

58. There are some KickAss DUers from that state.

[mmonk]

59. A beautiful state. The last time I went through, it was breathtaking.

[otohara]

61. John Denver

I've never been to WV - but if John Denver found it beautiful, that's good enough for me.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

62. It's not part of Virginia anymore?

[barack the house]

63. They respect their veterans.

[Jawja]

64. They have a pretty good football team

in the Moutaineers.... saw that for myself in the 2006 Sugar Bowl.