LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

[dukeb]

Some of the smartest people I know don't have a great deal of formal education. In fact, many of them have better bullshit detectors than your average MBA.

As for being a bad state to raise a child, generational poverty is a terrible thing made even worse by the exodus of the few industries that existed in Appalachia. I imagine most who live in Kentucky feel trapped.

Years back I worked in NYC with a woman who grew up in West Virginia. One day I showed her a magazine ad that was trying to entice businesses to open up shop in WV. There were pictures of nature that were just gorgeous. I showed the ad to the WV native and she said "some parts of the state are really pretty, but believe me you do not want to live there."