I think a lot of it is found in places where the jobs have been sent overseas and whole towns are left with unemployed people collecting welfare and disability, losing any motivation to find somewhere else to go.
“I think a lot of it is found in places where the jobs have been sent overseas and whole towns are left with unemployed people collecting welfare and disability, losing any motivation to find somewhere else to go.”
That could be a big part of it and also explain the urban crack drug epidemic of the 1980’s.