Big Lies

[Classic-Xer]

(02-19-2017, 10:49 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(02-18-2017, 03:55 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Appalachia? I don't live in Appalachia (Hill Billy territory). I live near a couple of big stinky, hazy and more polluted  blue cities that's loaded with people who believe that they are more important than those who live around them. Big city liberals/rural liberals  don't seem to give a shit about those in Appalachia based on the liberal  views of the people who currently  live there and those who  still view the region  as their home and their negative views of the region, the use of it's primary resource (coal) and all the American industries (American companies, American products and American jobs associated with all of them) that are closely  related to them  in general. Did you see the environmental  mess that the so-called environmentalist groups  left behind for others to clean up in North Dakota?

Well, I live near, if not in, Appalachia, and the people there sound a lot like you.  The only difference: there is no other economy to keep the places vital.  Minnesota has everything from the Mayo Clinic to several major corproations, 3M being the most obviously attached to the state.  It's not accidental that states like Minnesota incubate or attract economic engines.  States less concerned about taxes and more concerned about infrastructure and quality of life tend to attract the people that big companies need to flourish.  So thank your blue state for a large part of your own personal success.  Without the higher paid workforce, you wouldn't be doing much business.

And on your point about caring: Robert Kennedy went to Appalchia and tried his damnedest to light a fire there.  LBJ actually dumped money into the area duering the entire Guns Ns Butter period.  But in the end, it's the people who live there that matter, and the people in most parts of Appalachia seem hellbent on staying where they are and as they are.  No one can change that from the outside.  The best anyone can do is be there when the lightbulb finally comes on.  Your side decided to tell them to piss-off.  We'll see if that works in the long term.

Robert Kennedy and LBJ haven't been around for a long time. Minnesota has a fairly diverse economy and an adult population that is more business minded than the adults associated with past era's.