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Monday, March 23, 2009

Betty Cloer Wallace goes up against Bill O'Reilly

Betty Cloer Wallace at a meeting in Sylva, NC last year.
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.




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  1. Betty Cloer WallaceThursday, March 26, 2009 at 9:25:00 AM EDT

    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).

    See also--- http://open.salon.com/blog/betty_cloer_wallace

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