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Fetterman keeps attacking Oz for being from New Jersey. That’s resonating in parochial Pa.

Oz was likely always going to face challenges appealing to everyday Pennsylvanians. But something about the Keystone state’s political DNA seems to be making it even harder.

Coworkers eat lunch at their pickup truck at the Sheetz convenience store and gas station in Breezewood, Bedford County, in October 2020. The dividing lines In Pennsylvania aren’t along our state borders but east vs. west, Wawa vs. Sheetz, city vs. rural, Steelers Nation vs. "Go Birds."
Coworkers eat lunch at their pickup truck at the Sheetz convenience store and gas station in Breezewood, Bedford County, in October 2020. The dividing lines In Pennsylvania aren’t along our state borders but east vs. west, Wawa vs. Sheetz, city vs. rural, Steelers Nation vs. "Go Birds."Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer