I am so tired of the media making the southern part of the United States sound like a bunch of hillbillys. The south is full of well educated people. People who have good sense and raise their families with morals and values.

This article on pain killer abuse was titled South, Appalachia beset by painkiller abuse. This problem is all over the United States and not just in the south.

A while back there was a story on one of the news shows about how the Appalachian people were so poor. Well, let me tell them something. There are people here in the midwest who are poor. There are children who go to school in my town and don’t have money to buy lunch.

Stop slamming the Appalachians.