Many people have heard the terms “Hillbilly” and “Redneck” and had laughed at jokes and stories about them or have just thought the jokes were just mean and not funny at all. The problem with any jokes about a group of people is that they are stereotyping that group without knowing what that group of people really is. Many stereotypes are made to put a whole group of people down by overgeneralize each person in that group. The stereotype of the ‘Hillbilly” and “Redneck” are referring to the Appalachian people that live in the Appalachian region of the United States. The Appalachian people are marginalizing in the United States not because of race, but because of the regime, they come from.
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Eller points out that between 1870 and 1890, there was over two hundred Appalachian traveler accounts and other short fictions that were published most of which painted the Appalachian as a “rude, backward, romantic, and sometimes violent race who quietly lived for generations in isolation from the mainstream American life” (35). These were fictional and of course, only reflect what the capitalist industrial company wanted the northern middle and upper class to think about the Appalachian people. The northern people loved what they were reading and wanted more, and a market for the Hillbilly stories was established. The demand grew and the readership clearly wanted more stories of the rugged Hillbilly, the northern publishing companies had to write more to competitors in the …show more content…
Socioeconomic Overview of Appalachia, 2010 (PDF: 3.1 MB) (2010): n. pag. Web. The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is a regional economic development agency that represents a partnership of federal, state, and local government. Established by an act of Congress in 1965, ARC is composed of the governors of the 13 Appalachian states and a federal co-chair, who is appointed by the president. Local participation is provided through multi-county local development districts. The Appalachian Regional Commission webpage http://www.arc.gov is filled with everything the ARC does and has lots of data and siticis on the region. This page was helpfully for me to explain where, and how big the Appalachian region is and how the ARC programs are trying to help Appalachian
First, to marginalize is the process which a group …show more content…
Eller points out that between 1870 and 1890, there was over two hundred Appalachian traveler accounts and other short fictions that were published most of which painted the Appalachian as a “rude, backward, romantic, and sometimes violent race who quietly lived for generations in isolation from the mainstream American life” (35). These were fictional and of course, only reflect what the capitalist industrial company wanted the northern middle and upper class to think about the Appalachian people. The northern people loved what they were reading and wanted more, and a market for the Hillbilly stories was established. The demand grew and the readership clearly wanted more stories of the rugged Hillbilly, the northern publishing companies had to write more to competitors in the …show more content…
Socioeconomic Overview of Appalachia, 2010 (PDF: 3.1 MB) (2010): n. pag. Web. The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is a regional economic development agency that represents a partnership of federal, state, and local government. Established by an act of Congress in 1965, ARC is composed of the governors of the 13 Appalachian states and a federal co-chair, who is appointed by the president. Local participation is provided through multi-county local development districts. The Appalachian Regional Commission webpage http://www.arc.gov is filled with everything the ARC does and has lots of data and siticis on the region. This page was helpfully for me to explain where, and how big the Appalachian region is and how the ARC programs are trying to help Appalachian