Reply #29: This native-born West Virginian thanks you.

[Leftist Agitator]

The coal country in the southern part of the state is poor beyond words. Many people do not have running water, only the oldest child ever gets "new" clothes (always bought second hand and then passed down for the younger kids to wear as they get bigger), and in the summer eat only one meal a day, because school is out, and that meal is almost always soup beans and cornbread.

Most people have no idea that there are tens of thousands of families who have to live like this here in America.

Oh, and as Kentuck said, drugs, especially oxycontin, are a huge, huge problem. People often wonder why anyone would mine coal when it is so dangerous... It's virtually the only job in the entire region on which one can have a decent life.