Mentions (18)
"All the old timers in my family have Southern accents, twangy voices, use old Appalachian aphorisms and metaphors, whereas all the younger generation broadly speak in General American accents though have retained many of the aphorisms and metaphors."
"a white woman from Appalachia winning an Oscar would be more significant. i feel like people always ignore class privilege"
"The girl was a kind soul but definitely had a rough start to life stereotypical to her Appalachian roots (poor family, had 2 kids from 2 different deadbeat dads, tried to escape the holler by enlisting in the Air Force only to find out she was pregnant at MEPS)."
"Growing up in deep Appalachia, I thought my family was 'upper middle class' or something because we owned a house, while most of my friends lived in trailers or apartments."
"much to think about. perhaps a culture of independence and self-sufficiency leads to an emphasis on self expression and exploration. some great art and great personalities in tennessee"
"The Rob Ford of Appalachia. Seems to be a very sweet and funny guy, politics aside"
"The sort of fan fiction these people construct about Appalachia and industrial union members. The desperation to prove that all this meaningless discourse maps onto the real world in a meaningful way."
"Please don't be mean to them because I am always afraid that this is how I come off to people outside of Appalachia. I try to be tasteful with my little Italian loafers, but I fear that they can see right through to the blue hair inside my soul."
"All of this is in a non romantic way (because she works in finance in nyc and I deliver pizzas in Appalachia - not compatible) anyone ever deal with anything like this before?"
"Railroad cars of nuts used to be collected in Appalachia and sent to the cities in the fall, its lumber was straight, strong, and rot resistant."
"Here's some info on Old Christmas if anyone is interested-- my grandparents observed it and I think it's fun to keep the winter holidays going an extra week, so I try and keep the traditions alive too as much as I can."
"My family basically founded this one county in rural Appalachia. Two brothers settled there around 1750 and married a pair of sisters from a different family. Very few families settled there after that so I guess mating options were limited. People married people with the same last name, even first "
"I was a withdrawn, aloof kid from Appalachia who'd somehow made it to college in a big city, where I had zero connections and no idea how to navigate finding a job in a totally new place. I was smart, but my thick accent was gnawing at me."
"The hills tower over you. The woods become extremely thick. The roads—which are really just paths of loose pebbles—are so narrow that barely one car can fit. I lost cell service. It was 5pm but the density of the trees made it dark. Intense claustrophobia and isolation washed over me."
"What was once a beautiful synthesis of Scots-Irish, Anglo-Irish, Welsh and German Anabaptist culture, that birthed Appalachia and served as the Hillbilly Heimat as we traveled down the Great Wagon Road to bless the useless lowland Southerners with our beautiful culture has become nothing but a priso"
"Trying to move out of my holler because sand is coming out of my pipes and because I want to be closer to my job but everything is insanely expensive."
"Stop posting regurgitated twitter ragebait screenshots and start posting your roadtrips in Appalachia and observations about changes in the urban ambiance in your city"
"And I think people in the real small towns, the below poverty line villages that are peppered throughout Appalachias hills and hollows, often don't bother with imagining much more for themselves. A lot of them are nihilistically self aware of their situations, it's like being born into a tar pit; yo"