09-22-2020, 08:45 PM
(09-22-2020, 08:41 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I'm going to have to read his work now.
I've never lived an Appalachia, but my dad was a district manager for his company in Eastern KY. and we used to visit often. You've never tasted nasty until you've drank sulfur water.
I think it's good to read it, but also important to read two other works that were compiled in response: What You're Getting Wrong About Appalachia and Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Vance really made some people in the region angry with his characterization of the people and the culture. I was born in SWPA, which is Appalachia, and raised and currently live in the Appalachian area of Virginia.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
