Most Americans now live at the same address – Jackson Advocate

Most Americans now live at the same address – Jackson Advocate

By Ben Jealous JA Guest Writer Recently, I drove from my father’s birthplace in Biddeford, Maine, to my mother’s birthplace in Petersburg, Virginia. Two different towns. Two different states. Two different regions. And yet, oddly, just different ends of the same sad street. Most Americans now live at the same address: “We live where there used to be a factory. And when it shut down, what shot up was joblessness, hopelessness, meth, opioids, homi…