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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

The fracking folks are frightened of Harris, not any planeloads of people.

Seriously, any group of outside protestors/looters/agitators won't do well in rural PA. Recall what Carville said about PA being a northern Alabama? It's also crooked as all fuck. They'd disappear a handful of members of any Portland-like riot group, beat the rest to concussions, and no one would investigate anything. The blue dogs and right wingers would put aside differences and unite in that behavior. And I say this as someone who has had a shotgun pulled on him in rural parts for merely driving on someone's alleged land. The hillbillies in rural PA will. kill. you. And then they might re-enact the scene from Deliverance on your corpse. They aren't friendly sorts like you'll find in West Virginia. They are mean fuckers - generations of angry inbred coal crackers mixed with some East Coast nihilism they picked up from being close to coastal sorts (think a hardass New Yorker or South Philly person crossed with a nothing-to-lose redneck). And while PA is a hotbed of KKK (yup), that's a small fringe element. The hardasses who'd go medeival on any riot aren't racists. They Don't Like Anyone. (And that frequently that includes their own siblings and neighbors.) Pure misanthropes of the most vicious stripe.

So no... The people in PA you think are worried about planeloads of any kind of person aren't the same ones who worry about Harris fiddling with the fracking industry. The people worried about that are people with jobs in fracking, or businesses dependent on fracking multiplier effects.

The people you think are worried about planeloads of people coming into town actually aren't afraid of anything. They'd love a riot. Good excuse to kill someone.

The frack job on my parents ranch started on 1/8/2020 (great timing everyone...). In the last year we've gotten to know a ton of people in the industry personally. On top of every other friend we have in Houston working (if they're still working) in O&G. The people everyone were worried about were Sanders and Warren. Biden was a long sigh of relief, and Harris was welcome too.

You PA oil people are weird.