What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working class voters. Journalists flocked to the region to extract sympathetic profiles of families devastat…

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