Pikeville

A town in one of the poorest, 3rd world regions of America that has some flashy, dirty, coal money. Stinks of corruption. Has confused the word of Jesus with the word of Mitch McConnel. After the arduous mountain drive, it felt like entering a pleasantville-inspired Moordor. Surrounded by extreme poverty and hours of trailer parks, downtown pikeville is full of tulips and has an excessively nice purple playground and light up fountain.

Hey pikeville, if you don't vote for coal and put up with the black lung and retarded babies we're taking all the tulips away and you'll have to rot in a trailer like all the other hillbillies!!!

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Eastern Kentucky

One of the most corrupt, unhealthy, God-forsaken, stigmatized, and isolated places in the USA. 99% white and extreme poverty in 20 counties. You see nothing but trailer homes for hours until you get to pikeville where coal has been confused with Jesus. The poorest people in America have been bought and sold with dirty money and blind faith. PS if you're not white be prepared to be stared at and potentially followed.

-"I'm going to eastern Kentucky this weekend to visit the medical school in pikeville."
-"That is some corrupt shit out there. Plus I thought you scored better than a 21 on your mcat, you know, because you took it when you were awake."
-"You're right, but I wanted to see what the region was really like with my own eyes since I'm a Kentucky native."
-"That's respectable, man. But be careful out there on the winding roads where people will flip you off for driving under 70 miles an hour around a pitch black curve at night. And don't take any wooden nickles!"

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