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Title: Tea Party rally in Southwest Virginia town
Post by: diesel driver on April 03, 2010, 05:19:42 PM
Back on March 19th, a poster to DU boasted that he went to an Ohio COFFEE Party.  It drew about 15 people....

I went to a Coffee Party in Ohio (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7910177)

Near where I live, there is the small town of Chilhowie, VA, population of about 1,900 people.  They had their first Tea Party recently, and the crowd was estimated to be close to 80....


Published: April 2, 2010
Crowd gathers for first Tea Party meeting

By DAN KEGLEY/Staff

A week ahead of Thursday’s meeting to gauge interest in the formation of a Southwest Virginia Tea Party, organizer Ron Blevins could not guess how many would show up.

“Might be 10, might be a hundred,” he said.

The upper figure was not far off. While people came and went through the evening, a rough count in the standing-room only community room in Chilhowie’s town hall tallied about 80. They ranged in age from a few pre-teens to seniors. Two-thirds were male.

In the group were veterans, retirees, working families. Some professed with a show of hands to have voted Democrat, but many more hands went up when the question was asked of Republicans...

Crowd gathers for first Tea Party meeting. (http://www.swvatoday.com/news/article/crowd_gathers_for_first_tea_party_meeting/7207/)

 :cheersmate:

Not bad for a bunch of "ignorant, redneck hicks"....   :II:
Title: Re: Tea Party rally in Southwest Virginia town
Post by: Woodhick on April 03, 2010, 05:22:05 PM
I lived in Independence Va and traveled through Chilhowie nearly daily on I81. There are some very nice folks in S.W. Va. I enjoyed liveing there.
Title: Re: Tea Party rally in Southwest Virginia town
Post by: diesel driver on April 03, 2010, 05:24:53 PM
I live about 40 miles from there, in Wytheville.

I know where Independence is, from here, you have to go thru Elk Creek, down US 21 S.....
Title: Re: Tea Party rally in Southwest Virginia town
Post by: littlelamb on April 03, 2010, 10:25:32 PM
Goo for them I hope more and more towns start to have them
Title: Re: Tea Party rally in Southwest Virginia town
Post by: Woodhick on April 04, 2010, 12:15:02 PM
I live about 40 miles from there, in Wytheville.

I know where Independence is, from here, you have to go thru Elk Creek, down US 21 S.....
Yep I know where your located. The blue ridge is a buetaiful are to live.
Title: Re: Tea Party rally in Southwest Virginia town
Post by: Thor on April 04, 2010, 09:14:42 PM
Yep I know where your located. The blue ridge is a buetaiful are to live.

No, the most beautiful place is in the valley between the Blue Ridge & Shenandoah Mts.