>>17252650I can only speak as a WV anon, but the few reasons are can offer you are
-They're taking our coal. It has been the lifeblood and livelihood of our people for generations. We aren't educated, we know that. So we do what we know, used it for prosperity, and that is being villainized.
-Our families have left. We are, or used to be, a deeply traditional people. We rely on each other and a high trust society for our comfort and prosperity. Our children have been pushed out of state to pursue jobs and education that should in theory offer them a better quality of life. It offers them more money, sure. But their quality of life is dubious at best. Meanwhile ours decline because our children, and our future, is being ushered away and the ones that stay are being peddled drugs or peddling said drugs.
-A lack of God. Again, we are a traditional people and used to be a reverent people. Our churches are crumbling as the old guard dies off. It's that same old guard that is to blame for not training up a newer generation to replace them. They change their messaging and yield in their faith to appeal to a group of young people that made up their mind long ago to abandon this place at the first oppurtunity. Covid showed as that most churches are eager to close shop at first chance instead of banding together as a community and bolstering the family unit with faith and love.
We are a people ravaged by poverty and apathy. Our children are being lured away by globohomo and empty promises. We're turning our back on God and our way of life.
We're a good people, we're just tired. It's been a long road and we can finally see the end. Most of us have chosen to keep driving, hoping to see what we've lost over the horizon.
