claim: the poorest counties in the u.s. are in appalachia and "happen to be more than 90 percent white."
author: jim webb
evidence_1: sep 25, 2018 ... martin county is nestled into the green, rolling hills of appalachia, ... a  longstanding mindset among area residents is to hope for more but accept poor  outcomes, ... and despite having a population that's more than 90 percent white –  a ... address some of the statistical challenges, and i think it's happening.
evidence_2: nov 7, 2016 ... more than 45 percent of owsley county's population lives below the ... as is the  case in many rural areas of appalachia, poverty here is as old as the county ...  came to neighbouring counties in the 80s and 90s," he says sadly.
evidence_3: jun 7, 2017 ... arne duncan, u.s. education secretary from 2009 to 2015, is managing partner  at emerson collective. ... john f. kennedy in 1960, and in 2016 that same  proportion — of a deeply poor county now one-fifth ... the county is 90 percent  white. ... by contrast, chicago's west side is more than 90 percent black.
evidence_4: in the first u.s. census of 1790, the combined population of slaves and free  blacks in appalachia totaled more than 19,000 (6 percent) of the region's total  population ... counties with poverty rates that are 200 percent of the national  average ..... residents. almost 90 percent of the region's white population lives in  northern or.
evidence_5: appalachia is a cultural region in the eastern united states that stretches from  the southern ... the region defined by the commission currently includes 420  counties and eight independent cities in 13 states, .... perhaps no single figure  symbolizes the appalachian pioneer more than daniel boone (1734–1820), a  long ...