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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]West Virginia is a mess, Democrats ruined that state :([/quote]

Ruined? When was it ever good?[/quote]

Wow. So ignorant.

Was once very prosperous. [/quote]

so WVA enjoyed one decade - the 1970s - of prosperous times yet it wasn't able to absorb the hit when energy prices bottomed out in the 1980s.  and the leaders, even today, have not really pivoted from coal, as they're still hoping for a return to that bygone era.  with that 10 year run of "wealth creation", what did the state do?

and yet today it ranks somewhere in or near the bottom 5 of all states for nearly all socio-economic indicators.  and it's the 6th least environmentally friendly state in the country.  talk about ignorant.[/quote]

When will the be coal wealth return?[/quote]

Native WV person here.  These tales are all so uninformed.

WV was surveyed by George Washington.  A lovely area, but not conducive to farmland because it was once a plateau, with deep river valleys worn over millions of years.  The flat parts are the tops of the mountains. The New River is one of the oldest rivers in the world.

First it was attempted farming, then logging old growth.  Then coal was discovered and the mineral rights were sold pennies to the dollar, because landowners had no idea.

We are a hardscrabble people.  The idea that there are “leaders” is absurd.  The issue for the state is that it has mostly been bought and owned by rich barons of many industries, and shysters, and corruption.  There is a reason Rockefeller and Byrd were key names.  The rest of us are small landowners raking a living from the ground, or under the earth, ir at Walmart if we are respectable.  The rest are disaffected, with addiction and other issues.

No one trusts the government.  Why would you?  [/quote]

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