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Dollar General Is a Part of Americana Worth Saving and Celebrating

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Dollar General Is a Part of Americana Worth Saving and Celebrating
A customer leaves a Dollar General store in Vallejo, Calif., on March 12, 2015. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Salena Zito
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TARRS, Pa.—Five years ago, the plot of land where the Dollar General store sits on Glades Pike was just that: a plot of pastoral greenery located near a row of neatly kept homes in an unincorporated village that once briefly boomed as a coal town.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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