Appalachia

Vast pockets of both continued to exist well after that—in Appalachia and the inner cities, for example—and some exist still.

President Lyndon Johnson had just taken a tour of communities in Appalachia without electricity, running water, or sewage systems.

He saw a similarly large collapse in Appalachia, home to large numbers of lower-income whites.

The coal industry is blowing the tops off mountains in Appalachia.

In rural Appalachia, the drug is sometimes referred to as “hillbilly heroin.”

The first problem of Appalachia to-day is the very same problem as that of western Pennsylvania in 1784.

Every stranger in Appalachia is quick to note the high percentage of defectives among the people.

Throughout Appalachia such words as last, past, advantage, are pronounced with the same vowel sound as is heard in man.

I cannot quit this topic without reference to the bizarre and original place-names that sprinkle the map of Appalachia.

The United States topographers report that in Appalachia, as a whole, the mountain slopes occupy 90 per cent.