Word: appalachia
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...Appalachia now, where there’s mountaintop removal, people have horrible diseases. But when people were living more in harmony with the Earth that just was not true. Even if they smoked cigarettes, they lived into their 70s and 80s. The relationship with the earth was really healing both to the earth and to the people who lived...
President Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia, for example, are far less in need of affirmative action than many white children living in poverty in the hills of Appalachia. The president himself has stated as much, declaring during the presidential campaign that affirmative action ought to operate “in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged aren’t getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who has struggled more...
...bears for illegal-drug cultivation, political corruption, government distrust and a general frontier mentality. He recalls the haranguing ABC-TV's Diane Sawyer took from Bill O'Reilly during an interview before the February broadcast of "A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains," her documentary about life in central Appalachia, which includes Clay County. "He basically asked her why anyone should care about that area and said it's a lost cause...
...there any American traditions like this? Tons - whether you're at the Liver Mush Festival in Shelby, N.C., or in Appalachia talking to people who cook with sorghum and maple syrup because they never had sugar and flour. This is still out there...
Cirila Baltazar Cruz comes from the mountainous southern state of Oaxaca, a region of Mexico that makes Appalachia look affluent. To escape the destitution in her village of 1,500 mostly Chatino Indians, Baltazar Cruz, 34, migrated earlier this decade to the U.S., hoping to send money back to two children she'd left in her mother's care. She found work at a Chinese restaurant on Mississippi's Gulf Coast...