Barbara Kingsolver on DEMON COPPERHEAD
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The Mind Strikes of Appalachia
"I have no experience of the region beyond what I've read in books," he says. "It's so interesting that people and people don't understand that Appalachia is like an internal colony of the US." The coal companies came in historically bought the land, bought the city halls, bought the schools,. They controlled everything and they quite deliberately tapped out all other industries. So they have this workforce. It's very much like if you look at how imperialist governments treat, you know, their costs and their own policies in Africa or,you know, in Asia, it's exactly the same".
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