Appalachia

**Appalachia** er en region og et kulturområde i det østlige USA som strekker seg fra den sørlige delen av delstaten New York til det nordlige Alabama, Mississippi og Georgia. Appalachene selv, fjellkjeden som regionen er oppkalt etter, strekker seg fra Newfoundland i Canada til Cheaha Mountain i Alabama, men Appalachia – kulturregionen – er i og tildels i flatlandet nordvest for den sentrale og sørlige delen av den langstrakte fjellkjeden. Det bor rundt 23 millioner mennesker der.

Appalachia ble anerkjent som en egen region på slutten av 1800-tallet. Siden den gang har det oppstått flere myter og forvrengninger om Appalachia og dens innbyggere. Sensasjonalistisk journalistikk på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet fokuserte hovedsakelig på slående og eksepsjonelle regionale fenomener som heimebrent og familiefeider. I populære medier blir innbyggerne i Appalachia ofte stereotypert som dårlig utdannede og impulsivt voldelige. Regionen slet med fattigdom og økonomisk deprivasjon i lang tid.

## Litteratur
*  Note, chapters of this work are individually authored, and as such, it is a work of multiple authors, and there appear to be multiple section editors as well; there appears to be no access to the content of this work generally available online as of July 2024.

*  Presents a summary of Appalachian demographic information, with links to further reports and information.

*  Presents a summary of Appalachian population and age stratification information, with links to further reports and information.

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* Davis, Donald Edward. *Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians*, 2000.
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* Dotter, Earl. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining and the Environment" *Southern Spaces*,16. juli 2008.
* Drake, Richard B. *A History of Appalachia* (2001) 
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* Eller, Ronald D. *Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930* 1982.
* Ford, Thomas R. ed. *The Southern Appalachian Region: A Survey*. (1967), includes highly detailed statistics.
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* Inscoe, John C. *Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South* (U of North Carolina Press, 2020_ online review
* Lee, Tom, "Southern Appalachia's Nineteenth-Century Bright Tobacco Boom: Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Culture of Tobacco", *Agricultural History* 88 (Spring 2014), 175–206. online
* Lewis, Ronald L. *Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880–1920* (1998) online edition 
* Light, Melanie and Ken Light (2006). *Coal Hollow*. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

*  In addition to the pronunciation, the definition of the title term indicates no definite geographic boundaries associated with the term in its common parlance.

* Noe, Kenneth W. and Shannon H. Wilson, *Civil War in Appalachia* (1997)

* Obermiller, Phillip J., Thomas E. Wagner, and E. Bruce Tucker, editors (2000). *Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration.* Westport, CT: Praeger. 
* Olson, Ted (1998). *Blue Ridge Folklife*. University Press of Mississippi. 
* Pudup, Mary Beth, Dwight B. Billings, and Altina L. Waller, eds. *Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century*. (1995).
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* Slap, Andrew L., (ed.) (2010). *Reconstructing Appalachia: The Civil War's Aftermath* Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
* Stewart, Bruce E. (ed.) (2012). *Blood in the Hills: A History of Violence in Appalachia.* Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky.
* Walls, David (1977). "On the Naming of Appalachia"   *An Appalachian Symposium*. Edited by J. W. Williamson. Boone, NC: Appalachian State University Press.
* Williams, John Alexander. *Appalachia: A History* (2002) online edition 
* Woodard, Colin American Nations:  A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011)

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