Retiring Guy's Digest: Welcome to Trump's America: Marshall County, West Virginia

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Welcome to Trump's America: Marshall County, West Virginia

Living in Trump’s America: A West Virginia town looks for a fresh start. (America, 2/6/2018)

The question for Mr. Remke, Moundsville and thousands of other small American towns dreaming of a better life under Mr. Trump, is what kind of business. Moundsville, while in decline, has never matched the picture of the opioid-riddled rusting hell Mr. Trump painted in his inauguration tirade about “American carnage.” There is life here. Things work. Unemployment in the county is a palatable 5.7 percent.

But a year into the Trump era, town leaders are facing the truth that, even with Mr. Trump’s pro-business policies, they will never be able to turn back the clock to a community built on stable, lucrative factory jobs. Instead, their fight is making sense of the economy they have and how it is upending people’s social, cultural and spiritual lives.

That reality is a less stable and smaller economy based on the three pillars of energy, services and tourism. The Moundsville area has a coal mine, gas wells, a Walmart, a prison, a hospital and two tourist attractions—an former state penitentiary and the Native-American burial mound for which the town is named.

Source: Wikipedia

Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Source: CNN

Other Trump's America posts:
Alabama
Autauga County. (6/29/2017)
Bibb County. (11/10/2017)
Covington County. (11/11/2017)
Dale County. (12/12/2017)
Geneva County. (11/11/2017)
Marion County. (11/11/2017)

California
Mesa County. (7/20/2017)
Shasta County. (7/4/2017

Colorado
Morgan County. (4/25/2017)

Florida
DeSoto County,. (9/9/2017)

Idaho
Kootenai County. (9/25/2017)

Illinois
Franklin County. (2/27/2017)
McHenry County. (2/5/2017)
Perry County.  (5/8/2017)
16th Congressional District. (3/26/2017)

Indiana
Granger.  (3/26/2017)
Hendricks County. (10/1/2017)
Huntington County. (4/27/2017)
Posey County. (10/21/2017)
Scott County,. (10/21/2017)

Iowa
Boone County.  (1/15/2017)
Clinton County. (10/15/2017)
Franklin County, (8/14/2017)
Marion County. (5/23/2017)
Monticello. (1/13/2017)
Poweshiek and Webster counties. (2/7/2017)
Union County.  (9/10/2017)
Winnebago County. (12/17/2017)
Wright County. (8/8/2017)

Kansas
Clark County. (3/21/2017)
Mitchell County.  (1/29/2017)
Sumner County. (10/1/2017)

Kentucky
Hancock County,. (10/21/2017)
Jackson County. (12/9/2017)
Knox and Whitley counties. (2/17/2017)
Lee County. (12/9/2017)
Letcher County.  (6/29/2017)
Perry County. (10/10/2017)

Louisiana
Calcasieu Parish,. (5/22/2017)
St. Martin Parish. (4/26/2017)

Maine
Piscataquis County. (7/3/2017)

Michigan
Macomb County. (11/29/2017)
St. Joseph County. (6/5/2017)

Minnesota
Lac qui Parle County.  (7/2/2017)
Nobles County. (1/26/2018)

Mississippi
Pontotoc County.  (7/19/2017)

New Jersey
7th Congressional District. (4/14/2017)

New York
UPDATE: Essex County. (11/29/2017)
19th Congressional District. (3/26/2017)

North Carolina
Robeson County. (12/1/2017)
Union County. (3/9/2017)

North Dakota
Sargent County. (10/22/2017)

Ohio
Adams County. (12/9/2017)
Columbiana County, (12/11/2017)
Defiance County. (3/21/2017)
Highland County. (3/19/2017)
Huron County. (6/19/2017)
Jackson County. (6/6/2017)
Morgan County. (10/10/2017)
Trumbull County. (4/3/2017)
Van Wert County.  (4/12/2017)

Williams County. (3/21/2017)

Oklahoma

Bryan County. (5/5/2017)

Oregon

Douglas County. (5/17/2017)

Pennsylvania

Cambria County (Johnstown). (6/3/2017)

Dauphin County. (4/22/2017)

Erie County. (9/2/2017)

Greene County. (5/3/2017)

UPDATE. Luzerne County. (1/14/2017)

Northampton County. (7/20/2017)