while cheering on their candidates. we have taken you to both of those events. now we want to take you to virginia to the woods of the southeastern corner of the commonwealth. that s where two candidates helped this week to renew another kind of tradition, another one of a kind tradition by sharing thank planks. it s not the kind you would find in a political platform. they were there to plank a fish. a river fish called shad. it s how you cook shad in the woods of southeastern virginia by nailing it to a wooden plank and smoking it for hours. i m told it s delicious. just like they told me raccoon is delicious. it s when the shad was planked that the democrats got together to choose their nominee for governor. but the democratic center power has shifted. one in every three voters in the state now live there. since the year 2000 three quarters of the population has come from a generation of color
contest. that i have not had friends i worked for. i realize i m here as an endangered species. a virginia democrat. neither political party has paid enough attention to small town america. we can show you can build jobs in mumbai. we have not shown we can bring jobs to danville. thanks so much. come back and see us. thanks again to perry bacon and ann thompson for that report. the confederate flag guy is interesting. coming up, a bottle of vodka and a crazy jailhouse video. they have given rise to an investigation that now seriously threatens rick perry in his 2016 ambitions. we ll tell you how that fits together and we have big news on
it s got an little more politically correct. tell me what you mean by that. both the major parties have run a little scared of us. they don t want to come over here. last year they ask a republican if they saw this poster here. he says not me. so it s just gotten too politically correct. we might not be coming back. how do you win in a state that s becoming bluer every day? part os of the electorate that republicans have written off and allowed democrats to take for granted, my campaign won t do that. if you go to my website, one click of a mouse, you can get a spanish language version of my v video. mccullough didn t come this year. talk about why you came today. one of the things i m proudest of is there s no part of virginia i m not going to
which is dominate bid conservative republicans. as a result the premier annual political event in virginia, the one known as shad planking is changing with the times too. perry bacon jr. and ann thompson travelled to virginia this week to file this exclusive and fun report. jimmy, bring another board please. the secret is you eat before you come. it s true. drinking a beer and shaking hands is better. i m not just saying that. it s kind of like a political pulse in the commonwealth of virginia. years ago when the bird machine was in power and this thing first started, it was only white males here. in the 70s, ladies started coming, people of color and that s all inclusive. how has the event changed?