1) Always read @dhopkins1776 ! 2) something I've been thinking about writing about, in shorthand tweet: the historical trajectory of PA places means it's impossible to disaggregate the impact of fracking fr the other historical processes that have shaped the communities involved
https://twitter.com/dhopkins1776/status/1329051735017615364
This is fracking in PA. It's shaped by underlying geology. The same geology that shaped where coal was mined and factories built and immigrants arrived from Europe and labor struggled 150-100 years ago 
Which shaped where unions were formed & men won decent wages & the New Deal Democratic Party core partnership was created & crested in the 1960s. & the beneficiary communities have been losing ground ever since. & the most fortunate w/in the moving away from the party for 40 ys
In part it's the same point which @4st8 has been calling attention to for some time with brilliant maps like this
https://twitter.com/4st8/status/1307864615905300480
With the additional factor that big cities with don't let you frack in their middle. Or even prosperous small cities, with strong zoning laws & litigious citizens worried about residential property values. There's a reason this map looks like this👇 arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/i…
Meanwhile as Eliza Griswold's brilliant Amity & Prosperity makes clear, it was consistently the better positioned folks in rural areas—w larger properties & better connections—who were more able to negotiate gas leases that brought more benefit than harm us.macmillan.com/books/97803741…
As Amity & Prosperity also makes clear, when fracking's enviro & health problems mounted & the PA DEP failed to act/protect again & again, the lesson those hit took wasn't Let's hope some politician proposes a fancy Green New Deal. It was govt doesn't work, & no one has your back
I talked to @ORMorrison about this a bit before the election. Yes people in SWPA talk about fracking & reject Democrats. But when they are talkng about fracking they are also talking about a bunch of things thru it, incl work & earned pride & gender & more us.macmillan.com/books/97803741…
Anyway. This by @eefandrews did a great job of capturing why it's complicated motherjones.com/environment/20…
As did this great deep dive from @AndrewSeidman earlier this year, which makes it clear that if you're talking about he politics of fracking as separate from the politics of race, you're missing how SWPA [& organized labor within it] works inquirer.com/politics/penns…
that past, & that present, is crucial to why this proposal for the region's future is framed as it is👇
https://twitter.com/RyanDeto/status/1329162795028451337
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