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'Even Charles Manson could beat him now'
Gary
Younge
London Guardian
Saturday, January 16th, 2010
One year after his election, Barack Obama's approval rating
is lower at this stage than for any US president since Eisenhower.
So why has the optimism surrounding his victory disappeared
so suddenly?
Every Wednesday at 4.30pm they come: a small steady human trickle
rolling down a ravine in Prestonsburg, western Kentucky towards
the Town Branch church. They come in pick-ups, on foot, alone
and with families. Some stop for just a few minutes. Others
linger. They come for food and warm second-hand clothes. They
come because desperation in this part of America has become
a routine part of life.
More than a quarter of the families in Prestonsburg live in
poverty; half of the children in Floyd County, where it is situated,
are on food stamps. This Appalachian coal mining area has
never been rich. But no one can remember when it has ever been
this poor either. It sits on the old Route 23 – the country
music highway of which Dwight Yoakam (a Floyd Country native)
sang in Readin', Rightin', Route 23. It was the road that took
people north to factory jobs in places such as Detroit and Cleveland
and "the good life they had never seen". Now those
cities are broke and there's nowhere left to go.
"We're getting more and more people coming here as
time goes by," says Tom Price, who helps administer the
church's Feed My Sheep pantry. "The bottom's just fallen
out of it all." He blames it on Barack Obama. "Is
there a direct correlation [between Obama's victory and the
region's bad times]? I don't know. But I do know a lot of people
are hurting."
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