His YouTube channel is fantastic. I love his vids on the Amish among many others.
Over and over you ask the young adults why they don't move out to places where there's work. They tell you that some do, but the ones who stay do so because it's all they know and they're more comfortable with what they know even if it's poverty.
“The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia”
So who will do the raising when the grandparents are gone?
Welfare will provide a subsistence life style. Drugs are cheap, due to China and the cartels. Education level is low.
I lived there for a year. I left.
However, I must comment the majority of West Virginians ARE NOT caught up in this. They are good people and conservative.
No jobs worth very much is one answer.
The critics of these people say become a nomad and prosper.
Of course the natural resources are still their if capitalist producers want it, but right now those capitalist are into woke issues and climate change.
Bkmk
What, we can’t say DRUGS now?
Congress passes laws that kill good paying coal industry jobs. Then Congress accepts bribes from Big Pharma to flood the area with insane amounts of Oxycontin. Then Congress fought tooth and nail to keep the border open , flooring in even more drugs. Then the communists legalized marijuana.
And then they stand back in slackjawed amazement as everyone is stoned.
Somerset is about an hour south of Lexington, but it might as well be a different country. (I have friends in Cynthiana north of Lexington, very small town and not this kind of drug scene as I can perceive.)
Appalachia... Isn’t this a place that is historically connected with moonshine and incest???
It would only seem natural that if you’re going to have sex while drunk with your brother, sister, mother or father... That you do some drugs at the same time. Doh!
I lived in the Tampa Bay Area during the late 1990’s and early 2000’s and the pill mill doctors were over flowing! It was amazing to drive by those places and look at the tags!
I have really been enjoying this guy’s documentaries!
BUMP for later....
Paging Boyd Crowder . . .
I don’t feel good about costal elites looking down their noses at poorer Americans.
Maybe he should go to Philadelphia and interview all those drugged-out, half paralyzed and barely moving zombies they’re so famous for?
I understand the interviewer is a local, but the elites watch stuff like this and smugly shake their heads about deplorables all the time.
why is drugs spelled with a star? That a dirty word now? LOL.
Bookmark
Sadly, a lot of people in Appalachia have things in common with blacks in the city ghettos:
1) Drug use.
2) Education is not considered important.
3) Language deficiencies make it difficult to break out and achieve among people whose language skills are much higher.
4) Low self-esteem.
5) Crime - too much looking for a fast buck instead of looking for a steady job.
6) No sense/care about making something look nice. Settle for a public building with poor signage and no landscaping whatsoever. Little to no effort put into making things look nice.