• atp2112@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It also doesn’t help that Appalachia has basically been reduced to an internal resource colony. Never mind the people who actually live there, its only purpose has been extraction, and everything was built around that. Yes it’s brutal, but it paid well. When that dries up it’s basically an existential threat. It’s not just a case of being set in their ways.

    To me, there’s little difference between the desire in Appalachia to bring back coal and the desire to bring back factories from overseas.