...and daddy, won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County?
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay
Well I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askin'
Mr. Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.*
Here are two more accurate ideas for a good West Virginia Tourism Motto:
"Give us Another Chance; This time we'll vote to join the Confederacy." (And this time, we'll let you depart in peace.)
"West Virginia: Where we love the Affordable Care Act, but man do we hate Obamacare!"
"West Virginia: The Air Quality of New Jersey and the Voting patterns of Alabama in one convenient place."
*Ok, ok, I know that the song is about a county in Eastern Kentucky, but....Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, really, what's the difference?
There seems to be some sort of connection between having fossil fuels be the big employer and being peopled with right wing dickholes.
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