What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia

by Elizabeth Catte

For liberal political commentators there were no wealthy donors, white suburban evangelicals, or insular Floridian retirees responsible for Trump’s victory, only hillbillies.

Wilbur Ross,

Stranger with a Camera,

draft sterilization

Buck v. Bell effectively

Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded,

“After the survey is done, we’ll Colonize the worst of the bunch”—

Dr. Shockley’s proposal of sterilization on a voluntary basis for money.”

Otis Trotter’s Keeping Heart,

They were attempting to overthrow the commonwealth

“The bulldozer pushed over the hill and she begged them not to go through the graveyard. And she looked out there and there was her baby’s coffin come rolling down the

“We worked to make all that good food, yet there’s a piece of glass between us.”

criminal syndicalism,”

pieces of his brain left on the ground where a strikebreaker murdered him.

When it refused, she told them that if the telephone company could put a phone down a coal mine, it could come and put a phone in her damn tree.

Matewan,

Silas House