This is CBS High on the World.

I'm John Batsowis, Selena Zito, who writes the middle of somewhere column for distinguished

publications.

The Pittsburgh Gazette, the Washington Examiner, the New York Post, profiling three counties

in three different states in the critical zones where the elections of presidents and

members of Congress are determined.

Right here, this is small town America.

You've spoken of Chakka County.

Previously, we've addressed Jefferson and Belmont County in Ohio, part of Ohio that

Bats, West Virginia.

You go through Ohio, West Virginia, then get to Pennsylvania.

We've also spoken of Erie County.

Selena, you know so many of these counties.

I read them for the first time.

Thanks to you.

What do they share anything in common or are these different visions of America today?

Can you generalize?

Yeah, so I think there are things that they have and the cultural touchdowns that they

share.

They're all in Appalachia.

And yet, you know, people's idea of what Appalachia is is very different from the experiences

and the people that live there.

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