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The director of the Appalachia People’s Union on why the South is ready to stand up to Trump. White people delivered this victory to Trump. Out of 76 million votes cast for Trump (2 million more than in 2020), 84% of those were white voters.

While the coal industry is in terminal decline, it still shapes the culture of central Appalachia.

An Appalachian writer says Hillbilly Elegy played to bogus notions on the left and right about the impoverished region. The only thing that benefited was Vance’s political career.

Living with the monsters

Coal mining destroyed Appalachia's mountaintops. Then came the floodwaters.