From the Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Hillary Rodham Clinton has won a large but largely symbolic victory in the West Virginia primary.

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Interviews with West Virginians leaving their polling places showed an overwhelmingly white electorate comprised of the kinds of voters who favored Clinton in past primaries. Nearly a quarter were 60 or older, and a similar number had no education beyond high school. More than half were in families with incomes of $50,000 or less.

I find this intriguing. Older, uneducated poor white-folk prefer white-bread Clinton over the pumpernickel democratic candidate (tongue-in-cheek).

The former first lady spent parts of several days campaigning in West Virginia in search of victory.

She refrained from criticizing Obama directly, but had a cautionary word nonetheless for party leaders who seemed eager to pivot to the fall campaign. “I keep telling people, no Democrat has won the White House since 1916 without winning West Virginia,” she said at Tudor’s Biscuit World in the state’s capital city.

Biscuits and gravy or ham hocks and collard greens?

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