Two groups of rural voters from Appalachia and Western Massachusetts -- regions that voted very differently in the last election -- are meeting this weekend to seek common ground.
Following months of planning by community leaders, 11 residents of Letcher county, Kentucky, are staying with host families in Leverett, Massachusetts, for three days of cross-cultural conversation and activities.
While the Leverett participants are mostly liberal, the Kentucky group includes several Trump supporters, according to their organizer Ben Fink from the Kentucky nonprofit Appalshop. But he said the event will be more relationship-building than political debate.
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