And we had manufacturing attached to that. Union carbide was up there. We had all of this kind of internal economic engine that was just cranking at the time. Charleston, West Virginia, which is the capital of West Virginia, into the 1950s, was the richest city per capita in America east of the Mississippi. with roughly a hundred thousand people living there, is one of the poorest cities now east of the Mississippi. In terms of per capita income, particularly the county that it lives in. (29:57–30:07)
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