The resulting map shows huge swaths of deeply disadvantaged locations across the nation’s 3,000 counties, places that are mostly located outside of the largest U.S. cities yet which share some traits: A history of resource extraction, unequal educational opportunities, a breakdown of social bonds, violence and local corruption.
Glad somebody mentioned that this disparity is very largely and collectively self inflicted. It’s not necessarily because they are stupid but because their various unproductive hatreds are so easily exploited.