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#22 Whose America?, ep. 1: Rough Extraction

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The People of Appalachia

People from the growing towns to the east and north, right there in west virginia, looked at them and saw desperately poor people living a primitive life style. But what they couldn't see was that there was a real tight knit community life of a kind that was fading and dying out in the rest of america by that point in our history. They were still carving their own dishes in bowls from cucumber and poplarwood in the hills around them. This is a traditional community. And i just check this part out. In altina waller's great book on the culture of southern appalachia in the aftermath of the civil war, she writes if the importance of land was an

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