
Part Two: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About
Behind the Bastards
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Where Were You in 92
West Virginia's governor at this time was fundamentally a coward, and his first instinct was to beg President Harding to send in federal troops to help calm the violence. Striking miners had formed into a series of heavily armed camps,. groups of them started regularly sallying out to carry out sniper attacks and acts of sabotage on mine company infrastructure. The president came after me, everybody, I'm Warner, with madness. We cancelled before it made it to the post office.
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