Appalachia: The Big White Ghetto

".....Appalachian towns and villages stretching from northern Mississippi to southern New York, a slowly dissipating nebula of poverty and misery with its heart in eastern Kentucky, the last redoubt of the Scots-Irish working class....

....and death: Life expectancies are short — the typical man here dies well over a decade earlier than does a man in Fairfax County, Va. — and they are getting shorter, women’s life expectancy having declined by nearly 1..1 percent from 1987 to 2007.....

IF THE PEOPLE HERE WEREN'T 98.5 PERCENT WHITE, WE'D CALL IT A RESERVATION......

...the Big White Ghetto is different from most other ghettos in one very important way: There’s not much violent crime here...."

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