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Views from the Ruling Class by Jay Williamson

Editor,

From the window of a flight from DC to Oakland yesterday, I enjoyed the
view of Flyover Country from the ruling class perspective. First to appear
through the dirty haze is the National Hydrocarbon Sacrifice Area of southern West
Virginia and eastern Kentucky. The erosional dissection of the Allegheny
Plateau reveals fat layers of coal that are most efficiently mined by blasting
away the ridges and dumping the waste rock into the canyons. From the air one
sees these new rolling prairies, where scrubby grass replaces the forest, growing

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