Summary Of What's The Matter With Eastern Kentucky By Annie Lowrey

The article, What’s The Matter With Eastern Kentucky, by Annie Lowrey, eastern Kentucky is depicted as the hardest place to live in the country. In the article, she says that six of eastern Kentucky’s counties (Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Lee, Leslie, and Magoffin) are ranked in the bottom ten counties in the country. These are coal counties and because of the recent political changes, coal counties have been povertized. The article mainly focuses on Clay County. There are many statistics about the downfall of the economy and the downfall of coal. These statistics may be true, but I do not agree that eastern Kentucky is the hardest place to live in the country. It is definitely hards times in this area, but it is not the worst of the worst. Many people in this part of the region didn’t go to college or even graduate highschool. Up until a few years ago, a person really didn’t need to finish school because there was plenty of

The author, Silas House, takes offense to the put down of his hometown. The article maintains an angry tone as he describes all of the good of his homeland and all the things reporters that “ don’t know what they’re talking about” say. I agree with Silas, that the region of eastern Kentucky does not get enough credit for the good things is possesses, like “passing fair ordinance laws to protect all people from discrimination”. Silas talks about how people have worked so hard in this community, about those who try their best to defeat the stereotypes of outside people. I know many people who have worked hard and long to make something of themselves in this area. Those people deserve to be credited for their hard. work not called “a smudge” by reporters who only look at the numbers. Eastern Kentucky is not “a