Hillbilly Challenges
During this election year, J.D. Vance’s book Hillbilly Elegy has been received as providing insight about Appalachian people. With some solidarity they supported Presidential candidate Donald Trump during the primary season. In the blog amendoon we have discussed Appalachian heritage. One article...
Rubes, Barbarians and the TVA
Watching Bill Maher after dinner is entertaining. He has guests who talk about interesting issues in engaging conversation. For me, he also has a distracting penchant for the “F” work and the “R” (Rube) word is used on the show. In my opinion denouncing “rubes” is not useful. ...
