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IamSauerKraut t1_j5d26ed wrote

Lebanon County is also the corpse of Bethlehem Steel. More so than "Greater Harrisburg" which should include Cumberland County. All that dark green is pennsyltucky.

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binary_snek t1_j5dhfbp wrote

*need a map designation for PENNSYLTUCKY, stat

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IamSauerKraut t1_j5ew086 wrote

Just put together a map of the counties where Mastro received buckets of votes.

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ell0bo t1_j5ejcyn wrote

There needs to be a map that has eastern, western, and central pa (Lebanon, Lancaster, York, Dauphin) and just set everyone off.

Lebanon is such a weird place to quantify. It's not coal country, it did have steel, but the north can get bumblefuckish quick. We also have Amish in the east. It's in a nexus position between everything and does it best not to take advantage of that.

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danappropriate t1_j5fq2tl wrote

I grew up in Lebanon and can confirm. Culturally, it's primarily a part of PA Dutch Country, but it's a demographic slowly dying off. You do have the ā€œbumblefuckā€ portions in Cold Spring, Union, and Swatara up north, but those are very sparsely populated regions covered in state game land.

I would definitely not think of Lebanon as ā€œGreater Harrisburg.ā€

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GodSpeedLightning t1_j5q0xwd wrote

Glad someone agrees. Dauphin county has more of a claim to coal country (hello, have you been to upper Dauphin?!) than Cumberland does to "here be dragons." Cumberland county is almost entirely represented by "the white west shore" and Carlisle.

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