Appalachia

as is in many of the communities here in West Virginia, is drugs. It isn't the "welfare culture" that stops these folks' ambition -- it's the easy access, simple manufacture, and escape offered by drugs. Why take a low wage job when you can make meth in your home or car for little effort, sell it for considerably more money than minimum wage, and sample the product to boot?

But it's the tone of the article that really bothers me. I have read many complaints by blacks concerning the role of blacks in movies and television -- there's always a white savior coming to the rescue. In Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), about the murder of civil rights leader Medger Evers, the main characters are the white lawyers who bring the murderer to justice. In The Help (2011), it's the white lady author who brings the story of the black maids to the attention of the world.

And in this article, it's the New England aristocrat (notice how many times that her learned and noble ancestors are mentioned!) who has come to bring the poor, uneducated hicks out of poverty. It's exactly the same tone as the "white savior" films. I hate it.