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[ cheering ] ♪ >> robie: this place was a boomin'. you couldn't get through this town down there. but it's dead now. about eight or ten coal mines shut down at one time. >> coach: let's go! it's the same halftime speech every single week. >> quentin: there is so much negativity surrounding this place that no one ever focuses on the positive. they see us as ignorant or hillbillies. >> daniel whitt: overdose capital of the east coast. >> quentin: but there's more here than just poverty and illiteracy and drugs. there's a lot of good people here. >> coach: when you walk on this field,...

Anthony Bourdain digs deep into the proud, often misunderstood culture of West Virginia, as he traverses a 5,000-foot mine, observes the demolition derby-like...

>> coach larry: lord bless everybody that's going to the game, bless these young men and these young women as they cheer and as they play on the field. >> anthony: it's friday night. homecoming. the summers county bobcats versus the mount view golden knights. ♪ and for the citizens of welch, and mcdowell county, this is a very big deal indeed. [ laughter ] ♪ >> anthem singer: what so proudly we hailed. >> anthony: everybody knows everybody else's families, ask after their kids by name, mixed couples are common. there's an easy familiarity between people here. >> announcer: the 2017 mount v...

Game, bless these young men and these young women as they cheer and as they play on the field. >> anthony: it's friday night. homecoming. the summers county bobcats versus the mount view golden knights. ♪ and for the citizens of welch, and mcdowell county, this is a very big deal indeed. [ laughter ] ♪ >> anthem singer: what so proudly we hailed. >> anthony: everybody knows everybody else's families, asks after their kids by name, mixed couples are common. there's an easy familiarity between people here. >> announcer: the 2017 mount view high school homecoming queen is -- [ cheers and appl...

>> anthony: it's friday night. homecoming. the summers county bobcats versus the mount view golden knights. ♪ and for the citizens of welch, and mcdowell county, this is a very big deal indeed. [ laughter ] ♪ >> anthem singer: what so proudly we hailed. >> anthony: everybody knows everybody else's families, ask after their kids by name, mixed couples are common. there's an easy familiarity between people here. >> coach larry: bang, bang on three. one, two, three. >> team: bang, bang. >> coach larry: get there! >> anthony: so very much west virginia tradition. coal mining and the military. ...