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Southern appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. in fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. the region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. they're easy to poke fun at.

-Barbara Kingsolver

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Southern Appalachians Have Been Ridiculed Since The

Barbara Kingsolver

Southern appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. in fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. the region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. they're easy to poke fun at.

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The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, east versus west . . . but christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

When you live in a poor neighborhood, you are living in an area where you have poor schools. when you have poor schools, you have poor teachers. when you have poor teachers, you get a poor education. when you get a poor education, you can only work in a poor-paying job. and that poor-paying job enables you to live again in a poor neighborhood. so, it's a very vicious cycle.

Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.

This isn't republican versus democrat. this is not right versus left right now. this is not conservative versus populist. this is globalist, america-is-not-first establishment versus those of us who believe america is first. this is an establishment/anti-establishment fight that's going on.

Jimmy carter, of course, was beloved. peanut farmer. came out of nowhere, governor of georgia. normally democrats hate southern accents, 'cause southern accents equals deliverance, equals hayseed, equals idiot. but if it's one of them... but you had to look the other way with jimmy carter and then here came bill clinton later. so depending on where the southern accent's from, they'll make an exception and not be prejudicial about it. but for the most part, a southern accent may as well be a slave owner as far as democrats are concerned; they want no part of it.

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