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re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump promised them a return to coal, and more than that, to a world where poorly educated white men could make $80K per year working hard down in the mines and afford a house and a boat and to send their kids to college.

All they had to do was get rid of pesky government health and safety regulations and those jobs would come roaring back without unions to fight for benefits, right?

Don’t make coal mining a “white” thing. A few hours in the mine, and it was hard to tell. Several W Virginia coal towns were black-majority.

The vast majority of African Americans who migrated to southern West Virginia found new lives in coal company towns. These mining camps were favored by black migrants because jobs were there. Camps also provided available and affordable housing. The 1900 U.S. census shows that a majority of residents in many of the coal camps were African American. Black miners living and working in mining camps like Nuttallburg, Hawks Nest, and Stonecliff made up over 55 percent of the population.

nps.gov

Found ourselves near Nuttallburg last Summer.