There was so much work with the mines and everything else. What happened, It's a long story, but I'm going to try to summarize this in one word is globalization. Globalization destroyed West Virginia. We bear the brunt of that more than probably any state in America. because everything that we were doing within the state was internally sourced to a sense. So we had giant steel mills up in the north, in the northern panhandle. (28:59–29:08)
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