Eastern KY is very poor, and with the loss of coal employment getting poorer. A whole lot of public assistance.
‘Eastern KY is very poor, and with the loss of coal employment getting poorer. A whole lot of public assistance.”
This was true when coal was selling well. It takes far, far fewer people to do coal mining per ton than it once did. And out west, even less. With no infrastructure to speak of, there simply is no reason to open a business or live there. Sad, but true.
Yes, too bad some patriotic American investor can't build factories there to manufacture high quality semi automatic firearms for sale to American patriots all over America, and train Kentuckians to manufacture them, just for a start.