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slimey56
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« on: December 10, 2022, 10:01:30 AM » |
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As others have mentioned the Wyoming Valley, in particular the boroughs closer to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton core, to this day contain distinct Polish-American enclaves. While NEPA's renowned status as the national poster child for Appalachian Conservadems dominates discourse today, its Polish vote showed most prominently in 1984. Luzerne and Lackawanna both flipped for Reagan in light of his sanctions on the PPR, breaking with other ancestral labor strongholds (e.g. SWPA, the Minnesota Iron Range) which backed Mondale.
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