Grew up and lived in small Appalachian communities in Ohio and West Virginia for most of my life. The Norman Rockwellesque memories of these places have been replaced with rampant unemployment, hopelessness, and drug use. Trump’s election is perhaps a last gasp for these areas. Sorry to be so gloomy.
You're not being gloomy, you're being realistic. WV is in dire straits ... 0bama has been particularly destructive to us. If Trump gets the EPA off our backs, it will help. Beyond that, we need some source of wealth, some industry, other than digging black rocks out of the ground.
This is where I live also and it may be gloomy but it is the truth.