I recommend that all our readers who love the Appalachians and the people of Appalachia, click on this link to Gary Carden's blog:http://hollernotes.blogspot.com/2009/02/bill-oreilly-and-appalachia.html
and read Netwest member, Betty Cloer Wallace's post on Hillbilly Stereotypes and her answer to Bill O'Reilly's recent comments about Applachian people.
This discussion has "growed like Topsy" in recent weeks and has spread throughout numerous blogs and websites. There seems to be never-ending interest in the multigenerational aspects of cultural and social stereotyping, the erroneous lack of differentiation between "hillbillies" and "rednecks," the environmental devastation of our mountains (particularly coal mining by mountaintop removal in Kentucky), and cinematic misrepresentation of our culture in movies such as Tobacco Road, Beverly Hillbillies, Deliverance, and Wrong Turn (inbred West Virginia hillbillies killing and eating tourists).
ReplyDeleteSee also--- http://open.salon.com/blog/betty_cloer_wallace