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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/31/fema-denies-grants-kentucky-natural-disaster[/url]

Christian County: Trump 66.1% Harris 32.6%
Todd County: Trump 78.4% Harris 20.6%
Leslie County: Trump 90% Harris 9%[/quote]

I grew up very near Todd and Christian Counties. On the one hand, I feel bad because I know how it is to be caught in the cycle that leads to living the way they do. On the other hand, they’re getting the response they wished for, and their votes have consequences. I wish they would learn from this, but they won’t. They never do. [/quote]
Could you elaborate on your way of growing up, please? I am curious what happens in trump’s land.[/quote]

I’m not sure exactly what you want to know. I’m in my mid 40s and lived there until I was 22. We were dirt poor when I was in elementary school, and regular poor until I was in 8th grade. My mom was a teen mom, as was her mom. It was conservative and religious. People did what they wanted privately (drugs, sex, cursing, abuse…), and it was accepted as long as it wasn’t flaunted and they went to church. Usually there was some bible verse they could use to justify what they did. Showing off how bad you can be was a worse sin than being bad. Southern baptist was probably the most liberal denomination in my county. There were no churches other than Protestant churches, and the catholic kids in my class had to drive 30-45 minutes to get to church on Sundays. My 5th grade teacher would let kids who went to Sunday school line up first for recess and lunch on Mondays as a reward for being good.

It was okay to be poor because everyone was poor. Teachers, nurses, and retail managers were probably the highest paid people other than the handful of doctors and pharmacists in the county. It was considered more successful by far to own a plot of land with a trailer than to rent a nice apartment or house. The idea of receiving money from your parents after college was considered lazy, but that’s mostly because most couldn’t afford large cash gifts. Parents buying homes for their kids or gifting down payments really wasn’t a thing. School of choice also wasn’t a thing. If there was a school in your town you went there. If your town wasn’t big enough to have a school, you went to the one closest to you. Most towns in the county didn’t even have a stop light, much less a school. There were no private schools-that was for rich kids in NYC on tv, but everyone assumed only the very wealthy sent their kids to private schools irl. Why would anyone pay thousands of dollars to send their kids to school when the school in their town was free?

There weren’t really fun places to hang out as a teenager. We’d hang out at people’s houses, at the Walmart parking lot, or have a party somewhere remote, like a cleared field on someone’s farm where we could have a bonfire (not a farm where someone lived) or one of the countless abandoned places at the end of some gravel road way out in the boonies (like an abandoned quarry). A handful of girls got pregnant every year, and you mostly hoped you weren’t one. It was much more scandalous for someone to have an abortion than to get married at 17. We were peer pressured into signing virginity pledges at church youth group events, even though most were having some sort of sex. There were some (girls mostly but some boys too) who truly believed it was sinful and would lead to eternal damnation, including solo acts. Education on that topic was minimal, and mostly revolved around periods and abstinence. Not what causes periods or anatomy so much as how not to be gross while you have them.

Voting was definitely a civic duty and something to be proud of, especially if you voted R. The D’s were conservative enough that you mostly couldn’t tell them apart from the R’s. History class was a little bit about the American revolution, a lot about the war of northern aggression, and a guest speaker (either a student’s grandpa or if the teacher was older, a war buddy) who would go on at length and often inappropriately about whatever war they served in. Our high school French teacher had been to France once or twice, and the Spanish teacher had been to Mexico a few times (until she died and the sub who finished the year spoke no Spanish), and the German teacher had never been outside the country but loved talking about WWII and how hard working, smart, athletic, etc, German people are. We had a surprisingly good math and science department, although evolution and human reproduction were barely touched on. 
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