#and my great-great grandma grew up in a welsh immigrant family in a mining town that elected lots of socialists in the early 1900s

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#still incredible to me how my hometown/state went from being a center of labor activism to being 48 out of 50 states in union membership #like one of the most famous events in us labor history happened in my literal hometown #and my great-great grandma grew up in a welsh immigrant family in a mining town that elected lots of socialists in the early 1900s #it feels weird to have all that in my family and my home state's history and yet there's hardly a trace of union power there anymore :( #thoughts from a grad student on strike