My family has lived within this area for 200 years now.
AMA.

>>212946713 (OP)
>West Virginia
You must be one sad pathetic person

>>212946739
Erm sweetie this is also Kentucky and Southeast Ohio.

>>212946713 (OP)
Post a picture from this area

>Campton
Is that where naggers live?

what happens in wayne national forest

>>212946901
Hunting, drinking, camping, distilling.

>>212946875
there aren't many nagros in this area. Most towns are like 96-98% white.

>>212946847
I'm on PC and I'm too lazy to go walk outside and take a photo to post here. Here's a picture of a cattle farm from the area though.

>>212947009
Is that cow trying to seduce me? Because it's working

>>212947134
It must remind you of your mother.

>>212946713 (OP)
How fucking poor is your family to have lived in rural nowheresville United States for generations? Within the last century it became the norm for those seeking work and money to move to urban areas, and the only ones who didn’t were those too poor to move. Even blacks who were one to generations off of being literal slaves could afford it.

>>212946713 (OP)
I was actually there a few weeks ago (was driving from Texas back home to Delaware). Kentucky is really gorgeous and so is the river area near Huntington, but I gotta say the poverty and obesity in that region is staggering. Charleston’s downtown was depressingly empty. Do you guys do a lot of outdoors stuff?

>>212947205
This is probably a hard concept for you to understand but in many communities within the US South/Appalachia, rootedness is seen as a virtue and whether you have money or not you often remain in the area.

You're probably the same kind of retard that moans about how atomized/individualistic the U.S is. Well, here's what communitarianism actually looks like; staying in place for many hundreds of years.

>>212947238
The whole area got hit by a triple whammy of,
1) Southern agrarian economic lag,
2) Deindustrialization
3) The geography not being conducive to anything but siphoning resources away from the region rather than building things up,
hence the historic struggle with poverty the region has.
>Huntington depressingly empty
It wasn't when I was a kid. I used to go to Huntington with my mom all the time. They had a nice theater and bookstore and there was always something going on. Coming from a holler in Kentucky going to Huntington felt like going to New York City. These days, its a run-down shithole full of drugs & locals call it Little Detroit due to its connections to Detroit organized crime & drug sellers.
>Do you guys do a lot of outdoors stuff?
Yes. At least my family did. Redneck stuff is the norm here so far as entertainment goes.

>>212946713 (OP)
what do people from your area think of west virginians who live on the other side of the mountains, or in the mountains themselves?
t. never been anywhere near this region

>>212947410
I'm a little confused by what you mean but I'll try to answer. I'm from Kentucky, though right on the border of West Virginia. In general, this area is Southern Appalachian with regards to culture. I've heard the Northern Panhandle, like Weirton & Wheeling are more Northern Appalachian and Pennsylvania like. Culturally we're closer to places like Beckley or Hazard.

I don't know much about eastern West Virginia, just that parts of it are in the valley & more agricultural whereas this area has a mixture of agricultural & industrial with a focus on steel/coal.

>>212947259
I find it funny when Americans like to boast about how much their family values “community” as if they’re not descended from people who uprooted their entire lives to live isolated in a foreign land of strangers

>>212948007
Actually, like most Southerners, I'm mainly a descendant of English indentured servants who got sent to the New World against their will as punishment for minor crimes in the 1600/1700s.

>>212946713 (OP)
>sandy hook
Fake news

I can trace my ancestors to SE Michigan and the Detroit area going back OVER 300 years and I am not memeing in fact there is a big road (Meldrum) named after my 3x Great Grandfather. And yes I was born and raised in Detroit suburbs with my mom being born in Detroit proper, my father also in Detroit suburbs

>>212948895
Based.

>>212946713 (OP)
when did your family first have electricity, running water, sewage, and other basic services like that?

>>212948944
One side were wealthy local farmers & politicians who had electricity pretty early, at least since the 40s, tobacco/corn/pumpkins mainly. Had cars too. Got into horse racing too. The other side were miners/tenant farmers and didn't have electricity in the home until the 60s.