Color Farm Impact · The Dharma Project
The Suppression Weight · Uniontown, AL
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Dharma verdict
58–70. Suppressed, not low.
Recommendation: invest. A gap of +49 held down by sourced, addressable conditions. The gap is the return. (Gap +49)
What's holding the 15 down
Arrowhead Landfill coal ash & Title VI environmental-justice finding
+14.1
Wastewater lagoon failure & industrial waste contamination
+6.6
Extreme rural poverty & persistent-poverty designation
+12.0
Health outcome gap
+6.4
Credit invisibility / rural capital exclusion
+5.4
Data undercount (low)
+4.0
CC 15 + uplift +49LV 58–70
Current Conditions 15 + sourced suppression +49 = Latent Value 58–70. Click any factor to see the receipt.
Capital × Community Trust
Amber dot = Uniontown, AL · dot size = latent gap (LV − CC) · click any dot to open its report.
Trust is a core axis of this thesis, not a footnote. High capital with low trust is exactly the pattern the Suppression Weight is built to surface — the Dharma Zone is where capital and trust move together.
LATENTlow capital · high trust
Trust is high but capital hasn’t arrived yet — the upside the thesis chases.
DHARMA ZONEhigh capital · high trust
Capital and community trust move together — the healthy target state.
SUPPRESSEDlow capital · low trust
Both capital and trust are held down — the starting condition suppression creates.
EXTRACTIVEhigh capital · low trust
Money is flowing in but the community doesn’t trust it — value is pulled out, not built.
v1 placeholder calibration (rho=0.80, ceiling=100). No headlineBand pinned (no external pitch value supplied); the engine derives the band from mean confidence. cc=15 is the lowest in the seeded set: the pure income-ratio baseline (~20-25% of the Alabama state median, ~19-20% of the national median) alone would suggest cc≈20-25, but it is adjusted down to reflect the compounding severity of (a) a smaller, poorer population base than Lowndes County (this registry's previous low, cc=22), (b) three concurrent, independently-documented contamination sources (the federally-implicated Arrowhead Landfill/Title VI case, the failing municipal sewage lagoon, and the cheese-plant wastewater dispute) rather than one, and (c) sustained multi-decade population collapse. quadrant.capital/trust are a qualitative placement, refine with the content owner. Redlining/HOLC does not apply to rural Uniontown (never mapped by the 1930s surveys) — economic suppression is grounded instead in Census ACS income ratios and Perry County's USDA ERS persistent-poverty designation (see kill-rule notes). `water` and `credit` share the --risk (#f87171) semantic token since only five semantic colors are defined and this record has six factors (mirrors the Jackson, MS record's same color-reuse note). Perry County's own civil-rights lineage (Marion, AL, the county seat, is where the February 1965 killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson by an Alabama state trooper helped catalyze the Selma-to-Montgomery march) is documented historical/cultural context but is not shipped as its own quantifiable factor (see kill-rule notes).