Reply #70: I agree it is complicated. However, Walmart did prey on rural [View All]

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communities--so strapped for jobs they would have sold their soul (and they did, along with their downtown shopping districts) to have a stable employer in their rural farming community.

One I was especially following in the MidWest (where my Mother grew up)lobbied so hard for both a Walmart and a State Penitentiary that they ended up getting both. That town is so very different now that they are having trouble keeping population. Even with the jobs, their kids want quality of life as well, it seems-- something they feel they lost when it became a prison destination and an interstate exit-based community.