• evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Some of that selection seems suspect to me. It’s weird to include central Mississippi, but exclude the blue ridge mountains. With government definitions like this comes money, so I bet there was a lot of politicking involved. That said, jd’s hometown is definitely not Appalachian, though I dont think he claims that. He claims (and this is my memory from reading the book when it first came out), that his family is Appalachian, so he claims heritage that way. Not to defend him, cause I think he’s a POS, but I think it is fair to claim he feels Appalachian.

    There’s plenty of substantial things to criticize him for

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, it looks like it includes the blue ridge mountains and a little more slightly further east even. It seems to include everything that could even be argued is Appalachian.