“Something that puzzles me with this new drug epidemic is why Appalachia? I get big cities and larger urban areas having drug problems but it seems to me this area has been deliberately targeted for drug saturation. I mean, drug dealers from Detroit going to the mountains?? Seriously??”
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Born and raised in Appalachia (Eastern Kentucky) - my people settled there in the early 1800’s and there still are some living by the creek where they settled back then. My parents, grandparents, etc - grew up dirt poor, but they were fiercely independent and proud.
I definitely think Appalachia has been targeted (like the blacks) by SOB politicians, as a group that can be torn down and then built back up to be dependent on the gov’t. LBJ said he’d get the ******* voting Democrat for two hundred years.
As bad as things have been here - Barack Obama damn near finished it off.... destroying the coal industry and the multitude of industry and businesses that proliferated from it. Coal miners made good money and then Obama closed it down. Terrible times ensued - and that’s when I noticed the influx of the drugs - BIG time!
Trump came and promised to bring their jobs back. That was music to our ears as most all politicians before only promised handouts and dependence...... and they did it for the votes. Just another targeted group that was vulnerable to being bought off.
I think Obama attacked Appalachia with a vengence, because we are the epitome of Bible clingers and gun toters.
We had a business in Huntington, West Virginia. I can tell you that the drug woes are very real - horrifically real - the situation is critical!
Thank God for President Donald J. Trump - you go Mr. President!!!!
Amen! I thank God for Trump on a daily basis!
I spent a lot of time in the mountains of NC and Gatlinburg, TN as a child. I always loved the people and the area. I finally got my husband, an Expat from England, to travel to Western NC and Tennessee in the past couple of years. He now loves the area and people as much as I do- we are considering retiring to that area in the next 10 years. One of the reasons we like it so much is the people and their independent spirit. Where we currently live we have been inundated for years with the liberal mantra “everything about America was built off the black man” its nice to go somewhere where this argument doesn’t hold water. I honestly think that’s one reason Obama hated that area so much because Appalachia blows that idea out of the water. And I do believe you are right- Obama targeted this area because of the quality of the people and tried to beat them down to submission to the almighty government. People of Appalachia defy the liberal belief system every second of every day and I pray those suffering from drug addiction can find the strength they need to beat it.