National Review takes on Kentucky's "White Ghetto"

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I pretty much gave up on this article when it mentioned "food-stamp Pepsi." There is no such thing as "food-stamp Pepsi" in Kentucky. Food stamps can't be spent on snack foods such as Pepsi.

Are you sure?

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Are you sure?

In Kentucky, you cannot buy soda and candy with food stamps.

                         

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Are you sure?

In Kentucky, you cannot buy soda and candy with food stamps.

Maybe you're thinking of WIC? 

I think he's thinking of WIC.

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I thought WIC was abolished in 1996.

Honestly man, is there are Google outage where you live?

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Happened to just go by the Lexington Herald to try to find a very extensive series they did on the coal country and there were three stories from today involving counties all adjacent to Owsley.

Former Kentucky basketball hero and State Agriculture Commissioner/Lt. Governor nominee Ritchie Farmer is going to jail for all sorts of malfeasance.  (From Clay County)

http://www.kentucky.com/2014/01/14/3033479/farmer-sentenced-to-more-than.html

The sheriff of Jackson county arrested the judge-executive and treasurer after they basically stripped him of his police force and budget.

http://www.kentucky.com/2014/01/14/3033380/sheriff-arrests-judge-executive.html

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43 people were indicted in Leslie county in a federal meth investigation.

http://www.kentucky.com/2014/01/14/3034029/43-people-are-indicted-in-leslie.html

Fun times

I wonder why the Fox Noise concern trolls that are always demanding to know what Obama is going to do about issues in Chicago never seem to want to talk about what the Senate minority leader is going to do about the issues of his home state in Appalachia.  Are we to believe that Republicans just instinctually care more about black people than white people?