they're just there coal miners or soccer. the southwestern corner of west virginia is one of the poorest regions in the country the jobless rate is over fifty percent men's life expectancy is just sixty four years among the lowest in the nation. in welsh the country seat view thirty teams are powerless to stop the decline in coal companies take their profits out of state a long legacy of backroom deals between politicians and coal barons means they barely pay taxes. in the nineteen forties while this was dubbed little new york. it boasted the country's first municipal parking building. then mechanization led to the first mining crisis since the end of the cold boom the county's population has declined by some eighty percent and. many of those who still live here seem to