Outliers and the Hillbilly Sterotype
I would like to see Malcolm Gladwell test his theory about Southerners being more prone to violence than Northerners.
I would like to see Malcolm Gladwell test his theory about Southerners being more prone to violence than Northerners.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.25.2008 | Green
Dismissing an overwhelming majority of West Virginian support for clean energy, Governor Manchin granted a mining permit revision for proposed mountaintop removal of Coal River Mt.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media
I've been on tour in the swing states of Appalachia these days -- southern Ohio, West Virginia, southwest Virginia -- having crisscrossed through Indi...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media
As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
This should be prime time for Democrats. But Barack Obama isn't closing the deal. So here's where Hillary comes in: she could be the beer to Barack's champagne, the apple pie to his arugula.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics
It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green
The Coal River Wind Project is the first community-based full scale assessment to directly counter the nightmare of mountaintop removal with a renewable energy alternative prior to the actual mining.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.24.2008 | Green
It's Eden in the Mountains here in Appalachian Virginia -- miles and miles of green, forested mountains in every direction. But these natural wonders are being devoured by the coal industry.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media
The "grandmother of the muckrakers" Anne Royall was an American original and one of the nation's most daring, impassioned and indomitable social critics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
One of the things we noticed as the race for the Democratic nomination wended its way toward its conclusion was how the media focused on those so-call...
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
The mountaintop removal issue transcends any narrow debate of jobs vs. trees by clearly showing that the environmental devastation has gone hand-in-hand with economic decline.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media
Pundits missed the two best kept secrets about Appalachia: it is far from homogeneous and has been a burning ground of change for the past 250 years.
Charles Warner | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media
I think the "whiter, poorer, older, more rural and less educated" people of Appalachia are anxious about the future and about change, and thus, stick with old ideas and old media.
Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Obama doesn't exactly have an "Appalachia problem." After all, if West Virginia had a black population akin to Alabama or Mississippi's, Obama would almost certainly have won the state.
Harold Pollack | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics
This guy will be tough come November. His Appalachian tour is brilliant politics and offers nothing of substance that would actually help the heartland constituency that might vote for him.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Obama should shatter artificial racial boundaries by proposing a New "Green" Deal to revamp Appalachian region and bridge a growing chasm between bitterly divided Democrats.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
As schools, communities and politicians across the country celebrate Black History Month in February, they will be remiss if their lessons don't include the coal fields of Fayette County, West Virginia.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
The Democratic candidates for president have bought into the same sham of coal's reemergence as a "clean" source of energy for the future as their Republican counterparts.
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Don McNay | Posted 12.02.2008 | Media