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fav_collector on April 19, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Young White America Is Haunted by a Crisis of Desp...

You're sort of proving his point.

Manufacturing and coal towns are isolated. Manufacturing and coal are sometimes literally the only fields with jobs available in those towns.

Retail is generally located in places with many opportunities

nonaime on April 19, 2017 [–]

But you've missed his point about the racial gender make up of those who are employed in those types of jobs. Especially in places with "many opportunities".

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