Originally posted by Bart
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The tolls paid on the turnpike help support PennDOT across the state. 40% of the turnpike's payment to PennDOT is directed to SEPTA. So, the tolls do come back to Philly but sure would help if I-80 was tolled.
As for who resents who more, rural PA has a particular disdain for the Philly area. This is not a secret.
When you refer to the coal region as synonymous with rural PA, it is not. It is just one piece of it. I believe a lot of those mostly Hispanics are coming into communities in the coal region to escape the social maladies of Reading and Allentown. A generation ago they came from metro NY and the social ills followed them (or preceded them). But it's not a mass migration. Rural PA is white. Will they ever come to terms that it is Dems who have their back and not Republicans?
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