The one problem with anderson is that it died many years ago. By that i mean when the major manufacturing companies known as ACDelco and GM left town so did a lot of people and the main sources of income in this city. Since then everything has been rebuilding and recovering.
ACDelco and General Motors were both pushing Anderson up and making it a great place for employment and the economy. Until both of them eventually left, and a lot of people left after that as well. No jobs means no money, so of course with less money in Anderson, everyone here will suffer. That explains how all this started.
With the then around 35-40,000 people who were left it was time to start rebuilding. The population has increased since