re: #140 Blind Frog Belly White

“Somewhat unspoken is the point that the plentiful, well paying mining jobs for the uneducated devalued education among a population prone to mistrust education in the first place, so nobody put money into it.”

I think the somewhat inherent anti-government mindset of some in some coal mining regions, along with a penchant for isolationism [I can pull myself up by my bootstraps, don’t need any help,] and a “fear” of outsiders, along with other factors, might have played role in their resistance to attempts at introducing new ideas and jobs in these regions which would act as an accompaniment to thinking education isn’t as important as it should be.