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Article: Split decision: ; McDowell County is home to one of state's most diverse neighborhoods ... and the least

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April 8, 2001
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ELKHORN - Her smooth hands flutter as her soft Southern voice rises and falls. In a small, warm coal-camp house, Claudia Via spins a story of old McDowell County, before integration. "When I was a little girl, this was the black section. You know where the water plant is?" It's only a few dozen yards away. "That's where the white section started. ... Now, it's all mixed up."

The tiny hollow Via calls home is smack in the middle of eastern McDowell County, which is one of West Virginia's most racially diverse neighborhoods.

Here's the unusual thing about McDowell County: Drive 20 miles west of Via's house and you're in West Virginia's very, very least racially diverse ...

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