Complex sentence: Like the rest of central and southern Appalachia, Appalachian Ohio was controlled by absentee extractive industries in the late 1800s and most of the 1900s, and today shares many of the cultural, political, and environmental problems of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.
Split into simpler sentences: Like the rest of central and southern Appalachia, Appalachian Ohio was controlled by absentee owners of extractive industries in the late 1800s and most of the 1900s. Today it shares many of the cultural, political, and environmental problems of eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.