#If I lived anywhere in an Appalachian state it's more statistically likely I'd be from Tennessee. I'm not and I've never been there | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

bijoumikhawal · 1 year

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someone: how can you say local Appalachian context makes Katniss being Indigenous make sense, WV has one of the lowest percentage populations of Indigenous people

Me, half Egyptian, living in Appalachia, eating candy I bought from one of the three locally owned Thai grocery stores near me, contemplating grabbing lunch at one of the dozen also locally owned Mexican restaurants: you ever heard the saying there's lies, there's dammed lies, and then there's statistics?

#cipher talk #Like for one thing yeah by proportion West Virginia has one of the lowest #But by raw numbers North Carolina which is also part of Appalachia is the 7th highest population. Appalachia is bigger than WV #For another. Again statistics is really fun to use as a way of lying to people #If I lived anywhere in an Appalachian state it's more statistically likely I'd be from Tennessee. I'm not and I've never been there #(Well. More 'state part of Appalachia' than Appalachia itself. Most Egyptians there are around Nashville I think)#I'm not even in this fandom lmao

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