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Facing a difficult future, Pa.'s Trump-supporting mining communities are defiant and resilient | Opinion

Even amid conflict, there may be enough hope to overcome Schuylkill County's chronic pessimism, and the story of its decline that always gets told.

"Coal keeps the lights on" is written on a conveyor belt structure that crosses Route 54, the road that connects Mahanoy City and Shenandoah in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania.
"Coal keeps the lights on" is written on a conveyor belt structure that crosses Route 54, the road that connects Mahanoy City and Shenandoah in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania.Read moreLindsay A. Lazarski / WHYY
    by Paul Starobin, For the Inquirer
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