Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "A Reaction to and Explanation of "It's Okay to Be White"" video.

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  6. I highly doubt finding a home in Appalachia, with a dirt floor, including those in the heads of hollows, unless it is one preserved by the state. You may find some old clapboard four room homes built similar to the sharecropper's shacks, but yet, they have wood floors. I'd say that the last of the dirt-floored cabins had burned or rotted down by the 1940s-50s. You will find many "company homes" in the hollows, built by the coal companies. What both JFK and LBJ claimed about Appalachia, in the 60s, was a lie. It was a hoax, used to mix whites with blacks, to bring about welfare, etc. The Beverley Hillbillies was filmed as propaganda to promote it, and it gave Appalachia a bad name. By the 1940s, the coal fields, which were the poorest region, were unionized, and people lived pretty well off. When you traveled to the major river valleys, such as along the Ohio River, steel mills employed the people, which were fed by the coal from those mines. At that, it wasn't a lie started by either JFK or LBJ, but Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, where Eleanor had selected West Virginia as her showcase. There, she had an entire village built, with a furniture factory, as her little socialist project, and it failed spectacularly. The houses were prefab homes, not insulated, and the people almost froze to death during their first winter. Some of those homes are still there, which were remodeled, but that factory failed not long after it started. The project was started, to make the claim that those poor whites needed FDR's New Deal socialism. JFK and LBJ expanded upon it, to buy the black vote. You will find, that many of the claims made by the Democratic Party, have no truth to them.
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