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Old 03-08-2013, 08:02 AM
 
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Another poll has WV as the fattest state in the union.

Is Your State the Fattest? - weather.com

Is it just me or is WV a sinking ship that everyone just needs to flee in order to have a better life? I'm starting to see how much of a joke WV is. I kind of already knew but now I REALLY know and now it's just becoming funny. Glad i'm leaving this state soon, i'm tired of being in a really bad state. No wonder people make fun of this state, it's the worst in the USA. It's starting to be funny how bad it is, but it's also sad...sad that this state is the way it is, I have yet to ever find one good thing about living in WV and that is just sad.

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Old 03-08-2013, 08:06 AM
 
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Another poll has WV as the fattest state in the union.

Is Your State the Fattest? - weather.com

Is it just me or is WV a sinking ship that everyone just needs to fee in order to have a better life? I'm starting to see how much of a joke WV is. I kind of already knew but now I REALLY know and now it's just becoming funny. Glad i'm leaving this state soon, i'm tired of being in a really bad state. No wonder people make fun of this state, it's the worst in the USA. It's starting to be funny how bad it is, but it's also sad...sad that this state is the way it is, I have yet to ever find one good thing about living in WV and that is just sad.
Its really SWV, and especially Huntington, that gives WV this reputation. In NCWV and EP things are better.
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Old 03-08-2013, 08:11 AM
 
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Wow... top 7 are red states. Big surprise.
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Old 03-08-2013, 08:50 AM
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Wow... top 7 are red states. Big surprise.
Why is that surprising? Fattening food is cheap, and those seven states are the lowest on the poverty scale. Probably the lowest on the educational scale as well. (Eating dumb is also fattening.)
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Old 03-08-2013, 09:08 AM
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Is it just me or is WV a sinking ship that everyone just needs to flee in order to have a better life?
People certainly need to get out of southern WV. It's an economic failure, a health failure, and an utter environmental disaster. Not only are people fat and eating garbage because it's all that's available, they're also exposed to polluted water and air thanks to the giant mess coal companies have made of the region, which has resulted in high cancer rates and increased birth defects.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us...anted=all&_r=0
More than 22% of Streams in Southern W.Va. Damaged by Mine Pollution — Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University
Cancer Rates Higher Near Mountaintop Removal Sites | Mother Jones
Fewer Mountaintops, More Birth Defects | Mother Jones

The region is being destroyed and the people are being poisoned, but instead of doing anything about it, they happily go on eating fast food, getting fatter and fatter, and sticking signs on their lawns and trucks in support of the very industry that has left them fat and sick.
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Old 03-08-2013, 09:11 AM
 
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People certainly need to get out of southern WV. It's an economic failure and an utter environmental disaster. Not only are people fat and eating garbage because it's all that's available, they're also exposed to polluted water and air thanks to the giant mess coal companies have made of the region, which has resulted in high cancer rates and increased birth defects.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/us...anted=all&_r=0
More than 22% of Streams in Southern W.Va. Damaged by Mine Pollution — Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University
Cancer Rates Higher Near Mountaintop Removal Sites | Mother Jones
Fewer Mountaintops, More Birth Defects | Mother Jones

The region is being destroyed and the people are being poisoned, but instead of doing anything about it, they happily go on eating fast food, getting fatter and fatter, and sticking signs on their lawns and trucks in support of the very industry that has left them fat and sick.
I never understood why southern WVians uncle tom for the coal industry. It has only hurt them yet they mindlessly support it.
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Old 03-08-2013, 09:12 AM
 
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Why is that surprising? Fattening food is cheap, and those seven states are the lowest on the poverty scale. Probably the lowest on the educational scale as well. (Eating dumb is also fattening.)
I blame Marshall.
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Old 03-08-2013, 09:20 AM
 
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I never understood why southern WVians uncle tom for the coal industry. It has only hurt them yet they mindlessly support it.
These people need to rent the movie "Matewan".

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Old 03-08-2013, 09:23 AM
 
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These people need to rent the movie "Matewan".
An excellent movie.
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Old 03-08-2013, 12:08 PM
 
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I never understood why southern WVians uncle tom for the coal industry. It has only hurt them yet they mindlessly support it.
You just used Uncle Tom, that's so not PC Havoc.
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