I live in GREATER APPALACHIA. Founded in the early eighteenth century by wave upon wave of settlers from the war-ravaged borderlands of Northern Ireland, northern England, and the Scottish lowlands, Appalachia has been lampooned by writers and screenwriters as the home of hillbillies and rednecks. It transplanted a culture formed in a state of near constant danger and upheaval, characterized by a warrior ethic and a commitment to personal sovereignty and individual liberty. Intensely suspicious of lowland aristocrats and Yankee social engineers alike, Greater Appalachia has shifted alliances depending on who appeared to be the greatest threat to their freedom. It was with the Union in the Civil War. Since Reconstruction, and especially since the upheavals of the 1960s, it has joined with Deep South to counter federal overrides of local preference. Sad but true; I see evidence daily that NC is shifting into the Deep South where democracy was the privilege of the few and enslavement the natural lot of the many. Where do you live? tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 21:16:01 +0000
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