Posted on 07/24/2023 12:54:17 AM PDT by beaversmom
Thanks for sharing this...it’s a pretty good attempt at explaining this area.
It is a heavy white mafority. How can that be possible? Where is all their white priviledge?
majority
Fentanyl and lack of education will trump white privilege Everytime.
Saw a documentary about the area. It followed a family and one young man made it out and went to FL. Didn’t last long. He went back home in less than a year. Couldn’t make it in FL which is strange because FL has been a boom town for decades now. If you’re able bodied, have an IQ of 75 or more and are willing to work, there are jobs. He was able bodied so that leaves the other two options.
Watched the first of the videos several days ago. I live in a tiny coal mine patch town in western pa and remember hearing similar stories of times past. Looking forward to watching the next video.
Point is the poorest areas in the USA are NOT of any majority. I am very aware of what causes those conditions. I grew up in part of the Appalachia chain. Unlike the cities they get NO significant aid (and imho that is a good thing). What you find are people near sustenance living levels, there was a time were my wife and I, when growing up, survived on actual hunting for meat.
Yet we hear nothing of real poverty, only the grievance mongering racists working to manipulate for political power and money.
Point is the poorest areas in the USA are NOT of any majority
Meant minority, to early need coffee!
We survived by hunting for meat in Ohio for a couple years.
Not a geographic phenomenon.
Didn’t say it was. I will say it is likely most common in the Appalachians.
What was the point? That they are not poor and disadvantaged because you did it in Ohio?
Again my point is, one enthiciity (race if you will) is actually the poorest and likely of the largest numbers but no one really cares about them.
It does get pretty boring there since there are so few businesses. I ended up moving away again due to a job change.
It’s a complicated area. My parents grew up here in the fifties and took the hillbilly highway out and raised me elsewhere. I came back to college here and left for better opportunities. My parents moved back after retirement. I moved back when my dad got sick. This is my home. The people here are some of the finest individuals you could ever know. People live their lives. Many find a way. It’s so much more than what most of media present.
I recommend Santenello’s videos.
I have enjoyed the many videos of his that I’ve seen.
Might I also mention that everybody knows how to do stuff. It’s almost a parallel society. People learn to do electrical, plumbing, small engine repair, gardening, sewing, play music, hunting, fishing, hvac...you name it!
THIS is who the democrat party wants to destroy. They HATe these people with a passion. They hate coal. They hate white people. They hate independence. Where is John Kerry’s solar panel factory that will employ all these people who dug coal for generations?
Exactly! Before I left for the Navy I knew basic carpentry, plumbing, house wiring, engine mechanics, hunting and fishing. All learned from friends and family.
Economic poverty was not something to wear as a badge of victimhood seeking handouts. It was a driver to learn self sustaining behaviors and skills.
One’s value was not in grifting off the government dole but instead in learning to make use of the skills you had and the resources at hand.
I’m saying you have to do what you have to do wherever you are.
Some people don’t want help if it comes from the government.
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