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Miniseries 'Hatfields and McCoys' Draws Huge Audience

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Published May 31, 2012 at 10:23 AM EDT
History channel

If Virginia is for lovers, then Pike County is for feuding. The History channel miniseries about the infamous Kentucky and West Virginia families has drawn huge viewership, propelling the Eastern Kentucky county into the pop-culture ether and pushing a historical tome by a Lexington publisher to the top of the sales charts.
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