I watched Hillbilly Elegy last night on Netflix it is one of the best

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8. I live here and I think it is a fairly accurate description of the people in

Appalachia and a reason they support Trump. When I got out of high school back in the sixties your choices were the coal mine, steel mill and if you were smart enough or got a football scholarship you could escape. Myself I worked in the steel mill and made a good living until the mills closed. A lot of the blame for the mills closing was the employees and management goofing off on the job and stealing from the company. But it is a lot easier to blame imports or immigrants rather than yourself. Most everyone that I know from
high school that left the area have done better than us that stayed here. It is even more so today, most of my friend's kids have moved out of the area either to Columbus or down south and are doing well. There are no union jobs anymore, no coal mines and no mills today. The younger people that have stayed here are working low wage service jobs if they even work. They have been brainwashed into the belief Democrats were responsible for the lack of jobs because of NAFTA and immigration. I know NAFTA was a Republican plan that GHWB promoted. I think passing NAFTA has caused more damage to the Democratic party than anything in this area. Back 30 years ago Democrats had a lock on every local office in this county. Today the only way a Democrat can beat a Republican is to run as an independent.