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McCarthy, Wheeling, and the Roots of Anti-Communist Hysteria in Appalachia On February 9, 1950, in the Appalachian city of Wheeling, West Virginia, Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech that changed the direction of American politics. At the time, he was a relatively unknown…

I never made the connection until I was writing this.
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