Columnist David Marcus steps into a landmark bar and meets real folks who fear for their hometown's future
Every now and then in my line of work, you walk into an establishment and immediately think, I’m either gonna get great coverage here, or I’m going to get my ass kicked.
One thing I heard loud and clear, not just at the Hop but from many people I spoke with in Springfield is that they want Donald Trump and JD Vance to come and see exactly what is happening to their town. 'Vance himself came from a small town just like this one,' Brandon, who’s 38, married with three kids and cuts down trees for a living, told me.
According to patrons at the Hop I spoke to and others, Haitian migrants are renting houses not at a base rate, but per adult living there. As one guy put it, 'they know if they rent it to one person, there’s just gonna be a ton of cots coming in.' The upshot of this, of course, is that rents are way up, making it harder for this close-knit community to stay intact.
The Hop is the place where these people’s grandparents had their first dance, where they went to Christmas parties as a kid. Could they all scatter and move to new places of better opportunity? Sure, but they could never replace nearly a century’s work of creating their home and community. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM DAVID MARCUS
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