saying there's no coal miners or soccer. the southwestern corner of west virginia and 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 seems few thora teens are powerless to stop the decline 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 nine hundred forty s. while this was dubbed little new york. it boasted the country's first municipal talking 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 so . many of those who still live here seem to try to escape the dreary reality by