More than 200,000 coronavirus deaths. Economic meltdown. Ongoing protests over racial bias.
The AP is taking a road trip across the country to look at the issues that have exploded onto the national consciousness this year through the eyes of different regions and different Americans. An AP reporter, photographer and videojournalist are going to Ohio and Illinois, to Kentucky and Georgia and Mississippi, and then out West to explore what has defined 2020, even as the most divisive election in decades is looming.
The AP started the trip in the Appalachian foothills of southeast Ohio, where President Lyndon Johnson in 1964 first mentioned the Great Society, perhaps the most audacious push to remake America since World War II. The same people who a generation ago believed in their presidents promises to change their…