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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: pocotrader who wrote (1579130)12/23/2025 10:40:08 AM
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Janis was a local girl. Like Johnny and Edgar Winter, but you know, she wasn't a guy.

That song was her last before they found her with a needle in her arm.

She once said about her Port Arthur, her hometown, that it was a good place to be from. That was before it became the polluted and impoverished hellhole it is today. Back then, it was just a straightlaced and narrow minded den of Southern Baptists and Pentecostals running roughshod over those who weren't. Much like Trump's vision for America.

I feel much the same about Beaumont. Beaumont, Port Arthur and Orange was the Golden Triangle of oil production and refining. But you could graduate from high school and if you had a relative in the unions, slide right into the refineries and a solidly middle-class life with little effort. If you didn't have a relative, well the service economy awaited, regardless of your education. Given the areas history of cotton plantations it should be no surprise that a similar social model developed, just substituting refineries for the plantations. Same stratified social structure, bound together by churches. Same good ol' boy network that ruled everything.
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