I also grew up in SWOK and I can back up this statement. The whole place is pretty impoverished. Not quite like the southeast, but a lot of small towns that way are really struggling.
Totally! I drove through a town getting here where every single store in downtown was boarded up and closed. Some were in a mild state of demolishment where it looked like someone decided it wasn’t worth continuing like a decade ago and just left it as rubble.
Looks like a mall I’d frequent a lot in Grand Forks, ND in college. It always looked run down, but it had really nice little shops in it. Basically a haven for local small businesses that couldn’t afford their own building.
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