On October 13th, 2012 friends, families and business operators who depend on coal mining were showing solidarity by lining up along highways in Kentucky.
Groups in the hundreds gathered Saturday along U.S. Highway 23 as part of the United for Coal demonstration.
Wearing yellow shirts, hard hats and other coal-related items, supporters stood along the highway for about an hour as cars drove by honking their horns.
The grass-roots effort is aimed at showing support of the thousands of miners have been laid off across the region this year.
It's also intended to send a message that coal country is a political force to be reckoned with.
