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Appalachia, Merika

Third World, USA I don't really know anything about this area. I have heard of Appalachia my whole life and with watching the above video, I began wondering where in heck that is. I do know it's generally mountainous, mostly rural and somewhere in the Eastern United States. But it's a cultural region, not a specific state, and it occurred to me I don't really know where it is. Thanks to auto complete, my initial search was for the Appalachian Mountains  and the Wikipedia article doesn't really even have a good map and says it's a mountainous region stretching into Canada. There is, in fact, a Wikipedia article for Appalachia and it has a decent map showing where in the US this area is. So I got about halfway through the video and started it over to take notes while I watched. Early on, they talk about brown tap water that some locals won't drink. They name the place as Martin County, Kentucky.  Wikipedia indicates this is a very rural county with two inco...

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