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> Rural Kentucky is in horrible shape and a lot of people here were placing hope in this,

"Rural KY" is not all that big, a couple million people, if that, and solely exists to the rest of the US for low-key victim-blaming election cycle human interest dreck.

These news stories about manufacturing expansion are all about development just outside large towns and cities, like bowling green, louisville, cincinnati, ... and will draw similar demographic than if they were in Texas, Georgia, or North Carolina.

And fwiw, just nitpicking, "rural ky" can also include the bluegrass, and that's just plain comfortably rich.