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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Fri Apr 20, 2018, 10:54 AM Apr 2018

"Too poor, too black."

This is the Republican vision for America.

Uniontown, Alabama is on the route across Central Alabama (the Black Belt) into Central Mississippi - US Route 80, the Dixie Overland Highway.

From Wiki: As an original US Highway commissioned in 1926, US 80 was the first all-weather coast-to-coast route available to auto travelers. For a time known as the "Broadway of America", its history is second only to US 66 in American highway folklore, as several significant historical events have occurred on or near US 80. Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed approximately four miles (6.4 km) south of US 80 in Gibsland, Louisiana. Lee Harvey Oswald was captured at the Texas Theatre on Jefferson Street in Oak Cliff, which at the time was a business spur of US 80.

Uniontown was recently in the news regarding their acceptance of Tennessee "coal ash" disposal, some of that MAGA coal-generated by-product.


And this is what we get:

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