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Originally Posted by transplant99
There have been a number of things that fall into the "bizzarro" side of things in this area for sure.
Though I am in a city....we are surrounded by hills/mountains (the Appalaichan is the area, Blue Ridge/Smoky Mountains) and as hard as it is to believe in this day and age....hillbillies (for lack of a better term) still exist to some extent. By no means are they a majority of the population or even much more than a handful for that matter, but there are areas that have severe problems with education/incest etc etc.
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Having lived in the Appalachian area of South Eastern Kentucky for a number of years, I understand what you are taking about. I lived there in a small city (based soley on population, otherwise I don't think you could consider it a city). There are just a lot of problems with that sort of thing. Although, I don't really recall anything as bad as in the article but I didn't really pay attention to it either.
Hillbilly is a good word to describe a number of the people in the area. Not everybody but there are still quite a lot like that. Same sort of problems with education, incest, drugs and the like. Some of the businesses they have brought in to the place I lived left due to these problems.
I'm glad to be out of there.