To get a feel for that area of the country, watch “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.”
I own that movie. It’s very telling about the US being a lot of different and diverse cultures. It’s like a third world country there.
It’s not terribly different from here but that show was somewhat staged. The look and feel is somewhat the same. Trailers and trash everywhere. People really do look and act like that including some of my relatives. Meth(Hillbilly Heroin) touches everybody.
Pain pills were/are everywhere but drying up rapidly so heroin is taking its place.
Oh yeah. “White Lightnin’” was even more disturbing (to me), featuring the same fambly. There are a number of youtube videos with Jesco White that are, er, interesting to watch.
“To get a feel for that area of the country, watch “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia.””
One of the absolute best documentaries ever made. It is totally compelling story telling, and like watching a human, slow-motion train wreck, and implicitly says a tremendous amount about how free government money perpetuates dysfunctional populations like this who leach off the rest of us.
I HIGHLY recommend it to all Freepers if you’ve never seen this movie!
“The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” is available on YouTube. The Whites must be the most dysfunctional family in the country.