[Football Widow]

Is anyone else embarrassed that a presidential candidate is visiting eastern KY on the "poverty tour"???

IMO, it further validates the stereotype that eastern Kentuckians are uneducated, poverty stricken hillbillies.

I was wondering if anyone else felt this same way. I think naming this visit the "poverty tour" is degrading to our region. I'm sure why he is in the area they will not focus on any of the up-scale neighborhoods (like some of the ones just on the outskirts of downtown Pikeville or any other town). The visit will focus on some of the junky, old places that those "poor hillbillies" live in and how everyone is unemployed and poor. I just wish for once that a candidate would visit the region to gain support, not for a pity party.