Appalachia

Outliers and the Hillbilly Sterotype

Don McNay | Posted 12.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Gurney Norman, Civil Rights Movement, Obama Appalachia, Poverty, Blink, Kentucky Cycle, Outliers, Prejudice, Bob Dylan, Malcolm Gladwell, Civil Rights, Malcolm Gladwell Outliers, Appalachia, Stereotypes, Harlan County, Tipping Point, Bias, Kentucky, Discrimination, Beverly Hillbilllies, Hillbillies, Peter Frampton, Hogan's Heroes, Harlan, Media News
Don McNay

I would like to see Malcolm Gladwell test his theory about Southerners being more prone to violence than Northerners.

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Dear Al Gore: Speak Against the Rape of Coal River Mountain

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Epa, Al Gore, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Wind Energy, Big Coal, West Virginia, Clean Energy, Mountaintop Removal, Coal Mining, Coal, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeff Biggers

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.

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Obama Shuffle: Election Day Poetry

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.03.2008 | Media

Read More: South, Appalachia, Ohio, Swing States, 2008 Presidential Race, African Americans, Kentucky, Poetry, Barack Obama, Media News
Jeff Biggers

I've been on tour in the swing states of Appalachia these days -- southern Ohio, West Virginia, southwest Virginia -- having crisscrossed through Indi...

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Serena: This Fall's Most Dangerous Novel

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Wall Street Crash, Appalachia, Environmental Movement, Wall Street Crisis, Great American Novel, Novels, American Literature, Logging, Green Living, Thomas Wolfe, Ron Rash, Sarah Palin, North Carolina, Timber, Fiction, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, Media News
Jeff Biggers

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.

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The Dream Team Redux

Caryl Rivers | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Appalachia, Obama Appalachia, Barack Obama White Voters, Hillary Obama Dream Ticket, Obama Bowling, Obama VP, Big Mac, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton VP, Dream Ticket, Barack Obama VP, Politics News
Caryl Rivers

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.

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McCain's Problem with White Voters

Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Polls, African-American Voters, North Dakota, Ronald Reagan, Affirmative Action, George W. Bush, Colorado, Immigration, Michael Dukakis, Arizona, West Virgnia, South Dakota, Mark Penn, Democratic Party, Missouri, Echo Boom, Nevada, Virginia, Montana, Cuban-Americans, New Mexico, Latino Voters, John Kerry, New Hampshire, Ohio, Plains, Racism, Mississippi, Republican Party, Northeast, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Bill Clinton, Latino Issues, Alaska, Florida, John McCain, Karl Rove, Appalachia, Presidential Election, Texas, Baby Boom, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Young Voters, Midwest, Wisconsin, Advertising, Michigan, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, Hispanic Voters, George H. W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Southern Issues, Dnc, Libertarian Party, Indiana, White Voters, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

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.

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Obama: A Mighty Wind Awaits You on Coal River Mountain

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Obama Appalachia, Appalachia, Renewable Energy, Coal, Big Coal, Climate Change, Energy, Barack Obama, Environment, Green News
Jeff Biggers

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.

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"No, I'm Not From Here, But I Got Here Just as Soon as I Could"

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 06.24.2008 | Green

Read More: Appalachia Coal, Appalachia, Big Coal, Salamanders, Coal, Coal Mining, Strip Mining, Forests, Green News
Glenn Hurowitz

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.

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America's First Blogger: Anne Royall

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Religion, Washington DC, Appalachia, Anne Royall, Women, Politics, Blogger, Feminist, Media, Media News
Jeff Biggers

The "grandmother of the muckrakers" Anne Royall was an American original and one of the nation's most daring, impassioned and indomitable social critics.

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Jason Linkins

MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Refers To Rural Virginians As 'Rednecks'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, Appalachia, Obama Appalachia, Andrea Mitchell, Rural Voters, Video, Politics News

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...

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Obama's Audacity in Appalachia

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Coal, Coal, Appalachia, Mountaintop Removal, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

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.

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Hey Media: Lay Off Appalachia

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Primaries, Coal, Appalachia, Daily Show, Jon Stewart, Elections, Media, Democrats, Barack Obama 2008, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Hillbillies, Media Bias, Media News
Jeff Biggers

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.

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The Media of Choice In Appalachia

Charles Warner | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Bittergate, Appalachia, Rural Voters, White Voters, Media News
Charles Warner

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.

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The Riddle of Appalachia

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Appalachia, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Exit Polls, West Virginia Primary, General Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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.

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I Feel Your Pain: McCain's Fatuous but Appealing Tour of Coal Country

Harold Pollack | Posted 04.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Great Society, War on Poverty, Appalachia, Time for Action Tour, John McCain, Lyndon Johnson, Inez, Politics News
Harold Pollack

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.

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Beyond Race: Obama's Green Opportunity

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Appalachia, Pennsylvania, New Green Deal, Coal Industry, West Virginia, Race, 2008 Election, Coal Mining, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

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.

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Stripmining Black History Month

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Black History, Appalachia, Carter Woodson, African-American History, Black History Month, Coal, Big Coal, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

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.

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The Coal Truth on Candidates

Jeff Biggers | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: King Coal, Appalachia, 2008 Election, Coal Mining, Coal, Big Coal, Politics News
Jeff Biggers

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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