#also scotch-irish isn’t scottish or irish it’s a secret third thing that exists only in the US nkw

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what's appalachia? i'm not american

appalachia is an american geographic and cultural region in and around the appalachian mountains on the east coast! The region has a very distinct culture because of how isolated it was from the rest of the country for a very long time (both because it’s very rural and because the region’s been exploited and kept in poverty for centuries by the logging and coal mining industries) and there are a lot of different cultures that make up the broader appalachian one. Like appalachian music is one of the biggest influences from there and it’s a fusion of african-american blues traditions, english folk songs, and scotch-irish fiddle.

A lot of things that people think of when they think of “American culture” (log cabins, banjo/country/folk music, evangelism, rednecks, moonshine, etc) came out of appalachia. It gets negatively stereotyped a lot most of which comes out of classism because of the whole generational poverty thing but it is a beautiful and complicated place. i went to college in the foothills which was a very cool place to be. look at my mountains aren’t they beautiful