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What is it with West Virginia?
Posted on 10/4/16 at 8:53 pm
Posted on 10/4/16 at 8:53 pm
How can it be so pretty and be so arse backwards?
I drove through it and it had some of the prettiest scenery I've seen. Then I would stop and get gas or eat and it was like a 3rd world country.
How did it get this way? Coal mines?
I drove through it and it had some of the prettiest scenery I've seen. Then I would stop and get gas or eat and it was like a 3rd world country.
How did it get this way? Coal mines?
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Posted on 10/4/16 at 8:54 pm to dallastiger55
It's almost heaven
Posted on 10/4/16 at 8:55 pm to dallastiger55
Ummm, have you met coal miners? Do you know how often they are killed? It makes perfect sense with their "I don't give a frick attitude".
Plus they were cut off from modern society for a while, and there are parts of the state where you have to drive for over an hour to get a cell signal. They aren't the most connected of people.
Plus they were cut off from modern society for a while, and there are parts of the state where you have to drive for over an hour to get a cell signal. They aren't the most connected of people.
This post was edited on 10/4/16 at 8:56 pm
Posted on 10/4/16 at 8:55 pm to dallastiger55
Do you even toothless couch burning people.
But seriously it is another world. And I have been all over the South.
But seriously it is another world. And I have been all over the South.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 8:56 pm to dallastiger55
So much of the world's (forget just the US, though it's largely true here as well) most beautiful places are inhabited by some of the most backwards among us.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 8:59 pm to dallastiger55
They are mountain folk who are mostly cut off from the rest of society. Oh and meth. Lots of meth.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 8:59 pm to dallastiger55
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How can it be so pretty and be so arse backwards?
It's still beautiful because the people are "arse backwards". When the people catch up to us enlightened folk they will fuuk up there little part of heaven too.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:01 pm to dallastiger55
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:03 pm to dallastiger55
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:05 pm to Brosef Stalin
Baw, not meth...heroin.
Parts of Eastern Kentucky are the same way. Good folk...a lot of issues. Lack of opportunity and not easy to gain access. Plus, the government shits on them.
Parts of Eastern Kentucky are the same way. Good folk...a lot of issues. Lack of opportunity and not easy to gain access. Plus, the government shits on them.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:05 pm to dallastiger55
Meth is one hellava drug.
They also shoot Oxy's like no ones business in West Virginia .
They also shoot Oxy's like no ones business in West Virginia .
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:07 pm to WildcatMike
It's Southern Appalachia in general
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:07 pm to dallastiger55
Any time you start thinking white nationalism might be a good idea, think about West Virginia.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:08 pm to OMLandshark
For some reason I thought that dude was in his 60's. You gotta love the CPS statement, I was like WTF!!
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:11 pm to Breauxsif
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For some reason I thought that dude was in his 60's.
Got some news to break to you: that was actually a woman.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:15 pm to OMLandshark
You missed my subtle joke 
Hahahaha!!!
Hahahaha!!!
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:16 pm to dallastiger55
West Virginia and its citizens are fine people, salt of the earth... Some view Louisiana as far worse
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:17 pm to dallastiger55
It's pretty simple, really.
Isolation.
It was settled by people who lived in areas almost inaccessible to the outside world for many years. Isolation bred extreme poverty, which necessitated children abandoning basic education in favor of the coal mines or homestead farms.
It's all accessible in the era of modern transportation, communication, and information, but it takes generations to change what has become the norm for a large segment of the population.
It's identical in virtually every way to eastern Kentucky, btw.
Isolation.
It was settled by people who lived in areas almost inaccessible to the outside world for many years. Isolation bred extreme poverty, which necessitated children abandoning basic education in favor of the coal mines or homestead farms.
It's all accessible in the era of modern transportation, communication, and information, but it takes generations to change what has become the norm for a large segment of the population.
It's identical in virtually every way to eastern Kentucky, btw.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:17 pm to dallastiger55
Generally speaking the majority of those that settled in Appalachia are scots-Irish and we're poor, second class citizens in Europe. They just continued the family tradition here in the US.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:20 pm to dallastiger55
Dude...i love it...people that just don't give a shite...anything goes. The Gauley, New River Gorge, Hatfield and McCoy Trails...love it for what it is!
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