A West Virginia City’s Rising Fortunes Widen the Political Divide

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Morgantown, home to West Virginia University, is growing more polarized as it becomes more prosperous and white-collar in the nation’s second-reddest state

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—Atop a hill just west of this university town stands a gleaming 400-acre entertainment and recreation complex, converted in recent years from a former coal mine.

To Morgantown residents, Mylan Park, which last year added a $48 million state-of-the-art aquatic center, serves as a sign of the city’s recent ability to thrive, even as much of the state and region have struggled from job losses and a shrinking population. Yet as the city of 30,000 on the Monongahela River, home to hospitals and West Virginia University, has grown more prosperous and shed some of its blue-collar roots, it also has become more politically polarized, at least compared to surrounding rural counties that have tilted toward Republicans.

Now as many residents look ahead to a Biden administration, they are split between hope and trepidation. Some 46% of jobs in Morgantown and surrounding Monongalia County are now in management, education, law and other white-collar fields—the highest share of any West Virginia county, according to an analysis by the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan public policy organization.

 

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Universities draw in people who hate the USA and don’t share a common understanding of the history or culture with the locals . Then they bring in students they train to hate their country as well.

Purge it !

They photographer for WVU doesn’t know anything. Sheesh.

College towns leading the way in democrat propaganda

OliverKeeneVa Funny how educated people actually want what's best for everyone huh

West Virginia was the bluest state until the demise of unions and Obama on the presidential ticket 2007

what on earth is the first reddest state then

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