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My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

— John Knowles

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

— Tom Jones

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

— Aneurin Barnard

My father and brothers were coal miners.

— Merle Travis

I grew up outside of DC, New York state, and Connecticut.

— Jim Coleman

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist.

— Bruce Babbitt

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

— Ice T

Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

— Larry Bucshon

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

— Garth Risk Hallberg

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

✗Opposing Perspectives

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

— Irwin Thomas