In our politically correct culture where even the mildest criticism of a societal group can earn someone the label of racist, it remains open season on rural America. When Barack Obama famously spoke of rural Pennyslvanians in 2008 as “bitter” people who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them” and are prone to “anti-immigrant sentiment”, he was simply describing the stereotype that Americans have come to accept about that segment of our population that makes its home in the region known as Appalachia.
The Appalachian Regional Commission identifies the Appalachian Region as “a 205,000-square-mile region that follows the spine of the Appalachian Mountains from southern New York to northern Mississippi. It includes all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Forty-two percent of the Region’s population is rural, compared with 20 percent of the national population.”
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"This article seeks to focus on the collusion between sociologists, the federal government, and the media in promoting the hillbilly stereotype as a means to justify the ill-treatment of these people. "
ReplyDeleteReplace the word "hillbilly" with your target de jour
The American Communist Manual, rule number one:
Demonize first, then take control.
Demonize first, then take control.
DeleteYup.
Indeed.
ReplyDeleteI coined a term for this insanity back at the beginning of obozo's reign:
'Rural Cleansing'
'Rural Cleansing'
DeleteThat's good.
And, as the 'hillbillies' land was confiscated by the gov
ReplyDeleteand the generational Appalachians refused to leave, their
homes were burned and they were shot while fleeing. Yet,
we're not suppose to fear the gov.
we're not suppose to fear the gov.
Delete& just imagine if we had no guns like England.