This is really incredible research @somethingburger. One minor suggestion - for Steemit - it might help to add a paragraph at the beginning or end to summarize the scope of your study. Almost like an abstract to help guide people into your work. Each article is extremely professional and well documented... so much so that passerby's might think you lifted this stuff from a scientific journal!

A comment more related to your work - at first it might seem obvious that lower income neighborhoods congregate around agricultural waste areas. Simply because smelly land makes for cheap real estate makes for cheap housing. But, what raised my eyebrow were your comments about well water contamination / asthma / natural disasters.

These health impacts may be especially dramatic because the affected communities are more likely to depend on well water, which can be impacted by seeping manure lagoons that are regularly used to manage waste.

That's something that legislation could really address and perhaps mitigate. Have there been any kind of environmental protection precedents (or zoning laws) set in other states that North Carolina could draw from?