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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am surprised to learn how many of you are apparently startled to learn that there is this thing call "Appalachia."

I mean, I don't disagree with most of the explanatory responses about industry +/- , etc.

For those of you posting to say that you 'couldn't believe' you saw this or that on your way to the corporate retreat @ Deep Creek ... did you not previously know about Appalachian poverty and the exit of  industry?  Or maybe  you thought all of Maryland was like Kensington with a little Chesapeake Bay on the weekends?  Am genuinely curious.[/quote]

We know about Appalachian poverty. I had never heard of Cumberland and was just surprised that in that beauty, was like a mini Baltimore slum.  Also, when you think of poverty, you think something has always been poor or that way.  Cumberland clearly has the bones of something that was once not so.  Again, like Baltimore.  Maybe I need to get out and visit depressed towns more but I’ve been to Martinsville, West Va and that didn’t strike me in the same way.

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