“You might be able to speculate that this has something to do with the election. You might be able to speculate that this has something to do with the fact that these are largely white, rural Appalachian areas that have been affected…. They’re looking at this like, ‘the election is three weeks from now, we’ve just wiped out the complete and total infrastructure for all these towns and cities, that’s great’ because guess which way these towns leaned. They leaned red… These were largely Republican leaning tow