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re: Interesting article on poverty in Appalachia
Posted on 1/19/14 at 12:35 am to BluegrassBelle
Posted on 1/19/14 at 12:35 am to BluegrassBelle
Well paved roads and in Northern Eastern Kentucky. IOW, a load of horeshit.
Visit Bell Co. or Harlan Co. Kentucky or any of the East, TN counties nearby and get back to me. There's no comparison beyond mountain folks having a culture that judges wealth by friendship and family. This is a feel good story, imo. It feels good for wealthier Appalachians to be able to give the media the finger they so richly deserve because they so often exploit us as though we're nothing more than animals in a zoo and a feel good story for the rest of the country that enables them to ignore the very real issues in Appalachia that have been ignored for generations.
Poor Appalachia, and not all of Appalachia is poor, lives in 3rd world conditions and I'm willing to take anyone on a guided tour if they think otherwise. Even in the poor towns you can find those who are doing well but poor Appalachia is as bad off as it ever was.
Not knowing any different doesn't make it better.
Visit Bell Co. or Harlan Co. Kentucky or any of the East, TN counties nearby and get back to me. There's no comparison beyond mountain folks having a culture that judges wealth by friendship and family. This is a feel good story, imo. It feels good for wealthier Appalachians to be able to give the media the finger they so richly deserve because they so often exploit us as though we're nothing more than animals in a zoo and a feel good story for the rest of the country that enables them to ignore the very real issues in Appalachia that have been ignored for generations.
Poor Appalachia, and not all of Appalachia is poor, lives in 3rd world conditions and I'm willing to take anyone on a guided tour if they think otherwise. Even in the poor towns you can find those who are doing well but poor Appalachia is as bad off as it ever was.
Not knowing any different doesn't make it better.
This post was edited on 1/19/14 at 12:43 am
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Posted on 1/19/14 at 8:48 am to Prof
The White Ghetto
That's a National Review article that went more in depth about some of the issues plaguing Appalachia. Prof or Belle, is this a more accurate description of the situation in Appalachia?
That's a National Review article that went more in depth about some of the issues plaguing Appalachia. Prof or Belle, is this a more accurate description of the situation in Appalachia?
Posted on 1/19/14 at 9:07 am to Prof
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Poor Appalachia, and not all of Appalachia is poor, lives in 3rd world conditions and I'm willing to take anyone on a guided tour if they think otherwise. Even in the poor towns you can find those who are doing well but poor Appalachia is as bad off as it ever was
This is why I rage at Missionary trips to Mexico, Africa, Central America and have zero faith in the churches that I grew up in and have family and friends that pastor them.
frick raising money for Africa when there's people living in shacks with no running water, hollowed out school buses, and barely standing trailers just down the road. Our own people are shut out of proper healthcare and dental care, access to the internet, access to education, high tech training or even advanced skills training, and then to even be able to get an entry level job at 1 of the 3 Fortune 500 companies in NW Arkansas, they have to drive an hour to hour and a half each way.
There are some real core problems in Rural America, and the price of land, equipment, fuel, labor, and transportation locks them out of even attempting to use the one resource they have available to them living off the land.
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