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by skeolawn 3977 days ago
So following that logic, I guess if a "rich" person was to drive through Appalachia they would be inevitably doomed?
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That's an absurd extrapolation. Please try to follow along here! I'll repeat it slowly for you:

Because there's (in general) little to be gained from robbing people in this area, there are no or few violent street gangs and other forms of organized crime like you'd find in various cities where there's a more colorful mix of rich and poor. Lacking an organized criminal element, Appalachia presents not significantly more (nor less) danger to well-off tourists than any other area where poor people live and a few will -by statistics- be criminals; and considerably less than various cities, certainly various neighborhoods, where robbery and other violent crime are common and more or less an "industry."