[FormerJacket72]

So you guys are taking the generalization out of context and targeting the few that have overcome. The statement is made for the whole. Yes some poor people never know that they are poor because they cope with the hand they were dealt. On the flip side some just run it into the dirt and take anyone down with them. Let me summarize it better this way. You have old school poverty where that group of people were proud and worked their tails off for very little but knew they earned what they had. They instilled hard work and values into their children. Then you have the new school poverty where they think a handout is as good as a hard days work. This carries over to their children and they lose any type of work ethic and those are the ones walking the halls for the most part.

As for Bell county yes they are poor but ask any player what he would be doing if he wasn't playing ball and he would say working, probably in the coal mines and oh yeah they have that secret ingredient called community support and working class pride.

But this is just my opinion.