Tornado Alley (PROG)

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And if trickle down economics were not, as GHW Bush accurately described them, voodoo economics, the states of the old confederacy would not, for the most part, be ranked near WV in the metrics below.

But the poverty and quiet distress is heartbreaking. If fossil fuels brought prosperity to a place, West Virginians would be dancing on gold-paved streets. Instead, West Virginia is the second-poorest state by median income, and near the bottom of virtually every social indicator of well-being, from obesity to opioid addiction to education.