Friday, December 13, 2019

Greetings from Trump's America: Buchanan County, Virginia, where coal was once king



Reported in Can a coal town reinvent itself?  (The New York Times, 12/6/2019)
And that, today, is a problem. At the peak of coal’s fortunes in the 1970s, more than 35,000 people lived in Buchanan. Over 5,000 worked in the mines. Mr. Rife remembers downtown sidewalks in Grundy, the county seat, packed with thousands of people on weekend shopping expeditions. Karen Brown, the principal of Grundy High School, recalls Porsches and Mercedes-Benzes parked in the high school lot when she went to school there.

Source:  Wikipedia (Buchanan County, Grundy)


Grundy is the county seat of Buchanan County.


% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
  • 10.8% - Buchanan County
  • 37.6% - Virginia
  • 30.9% - U.S.
% of population 65 and older:
  • 22.2% - Buchanan County
  • 15.4% - Virginia
  • 16.0% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
  • 27.6% - Buchanan County
  • 10.7% - Virginia
  • 11.8% - U.S.

Greetings from Trump's America

Source:  Wikipedia 
3rd-party candidates received 8.6% of vote in 1992, 9.6% of vote in 1996, 2.5% in 2016
(George Wallace received 11.4% of the vote in 1968)

Buchanan County Public Library, Grundy (shared space)

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