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“On election season politicos dawn their timber boots and red handkerchiefs. Many claim salt of the earth roots every time they eat a watermelon, but they never bite the bitterness of the rind. Everyone likes a good show and the politics of poverty never disappoint.”

Politics Poverty Watermelon

Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

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“Appalachia, in fact, is a very matriarchal culture. We revere our grandmothers and mothers.”

Mothers Appalachia Grandmothers

Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

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“Elegies are poems dedicated to the dead. The American hillbilly(assuming we can use that word for the white working class) isn't dead; she is just poor.”

Appalachia Elegy Hillbilly

Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

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“He seems to be giving his people a (mostly) gently worded lecture on their lack of willingness to work even when it appears almost pointless to do so. For that reason, the book should have been titled Hillbilly Reprimand, because Vance doesn't want to mourn his hillbilly family. He wants to make them good proletarians like they allegedly were in the twentieth century.”

Appalachia Hillbilly

Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

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“In Appalachia, everyone has a fierce granny story.”

Granny Appalachia Grandmothers

Book:Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

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