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tensorpudding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I suspect coal country in Kentucky, WV and rural PA and Virginia and the western plains in Nebraska and Kansas, which are already severely stressed with population loss, will see some real ghost towns soon. Especially if the Ogallala aquifer dries up in the latter case.

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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Not a big guardian fan but I just saw an article about such downs pertaining to Trump cutting the funding that was earmarked to help those kinds of towns transition away from coal. www.theguardian.com/…/trump-coal-country

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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Not a big Guardians fan??? Surely you can’t deny that Jose Rameriez is one of the greatest in the game today!!! Go Guards!
  
  …we’re talking baseball right?
  
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  - LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Well it was really the whole Vin Diesel I am Groot thing that didn’t click for me. Otherwise the music in it was pretty great.
    
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snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
A lot of the small towns in Nebraska and Kansas will be ghost towns when the few boomers that still live there pass away as all of the younger generations have already moved away.

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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  no jobs in small towns unfortunately, so they all move close to big cities.
  
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
is that why they are redistricting/gerrymandering so hard in recent years too? it make sense.

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