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Appalachia: The Big White Ghetto
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...." google any part of the above if you are interested enough to read more or if you are curious to learn the source |
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Appalachia: The Big White Ghetto
On Friday, January 10, 2014 7:53:25 AM UTC-5, Française mangeur de viande de cheval wrote:
...... 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...." google any part of the above if you are interested enough to read more or if you are curious to learn the source follow up: "..welfare has made Appalachia into a big and sparsely populated housing project — too backward to thrive, but just comfortable enough to keep the underclass in place. There is no cure for poverty, because there is no cause of poverty — poverty is the natural condition of the human animal...” |
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