skayote asked:

I was along the Ohio River for a job a while back and stayed overnight in an airbnb hotel that was run down. It was really sad what the state of disrepair was, but I was woken up at 2am by a CSX train hauling coal or something. What do you propose is done with this area, or the entire state of WV since it's mostly unusable land as the coal industry falls off

Um, I don’t know what the solution to the poverty of Appalachia is, but I do know it involves treating the people there like humans