The Appalachia you DIDN'T see in the Diane Sawyer 20/20 show (Louisville: home, find a job)

[AnInterestingGerman]

You don´t want to understand. You´ll find brandnew houses with glittering neon writings, nice parks and clean streets in Bombay too, but not far away you find yourself ahead of a bad slum area. You don´t help the poor if you are offended whenever you´re confronted with the social problems in your surely beautiful region with their surely great folks.

But it´s right that they shouldn´t focus only on the inner cities, the appalachians in West Virginia and Kentucky and the Mississippi Delta.

I think that the media focus on the inner cities because they´re black and on the appalchians because they´re white rural people which are considered backwards. And there is an attitude that it´s a shame that so many whites live in poverty.
If Mexicans or coulored people do so, it´s considered normal ...

What´s for example with the very poor indian Reservations, third world- like settlements of Immigrants from latin America or the poverty in the rockey mountains?

[blue_eyedgirl]

Originally Posted by missymomof3

There are very few Kentuckians who don't know what country ham is. Maybe she is afraid she wouldn't be taken seriously if she acts like a Kentuckian, who knows.

That's reaching a bit. Do you really think Diane Sawyer sits around pondering the effects that acknowledging country ham exist will have on her career? Some how I doubt it.

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by blue_eyedgirl

That's reaching a bit. Do you really think Diane Sawyer sits around pondering the effects that acknowledging country ham exist will have on her career? Some how I doubt it.

Maybe, I don't know.

[kentuckydad95]

Originally Posted by DeaconJ

maybe she feels that Louisville is a little above the rest of Kentucky

That's they way our state leaders feel anyway.

[Bluesmama]

Where 'hillbillies' are concerned, the Appalachians is NOT the only place where they dwell. Hell, a lot of Oregonians don't realize that there are people living just like that in the deep eastern parts of the state.

I think many states have their destitute areas where residents barely carve out a living.

[Peter1948]

Originally Posted by DeaconJ

Her family moved to Louisville when she was a child, and she graduated from high school there. To me, that translates to being "from" somewhere.

Sorry people, technically Diane Sawyer is from Glasgow, KY. But her formative years (and attitude/personality) are from Louisville.

She is indeed from Louisville, and the city claims her. In fact, a large poster of her hangs on a large apartment highrise downtown. Likewise, many other famous Louisvillians like Muhammad Ali have their posters hanging on Louisville highrises.

[big daryle]

Originally Posted by Visvaldis

To the OP:
I don't see anything wrong with smoking weed and singing bluegrass music. Sure beats the stressful materialistic rat race that most people pursue.

I agree 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JefferyT]

Actually we used to smoke weed and listen to bluegrass music. But if I recall a lot of those backwoods hippies liked rock a lot too.

And yeah, that station out of Whitesburg is great. They used to have a record label to, putting out a lot of trad music.

[JefferyT]

Where 'hillbillies' are concerned, the Appalachians is NOT the only place where they dwell.

Quite a few of them are in Dayton & vicinity. In fact there's so many that we joke that Dayton is the northermost city in Kentucky (which it is, the other Dayton that is). But a lot from Tennessee and WVA. So many that we have documentarys on our local public TV station on the history of West Virginia. And Mountain Days is a big summer festival here.

BTW the term used here isn't hillbilly but "briar".

[InLondon]

Originally Posted by JefferyT

Quite a few of them are in Dayton & vicinity. In fact there's so many that we joke that Dayton is the northermost city in Kentucky (which it is, the other Dayton that is). But a lot from Tennessee and WVA. So many that we have documentarys on our local public TV station on the history of West Virginia. And Mountain Days is a big summer festival here.

BTW the term used here isn't hillbilly but "briar".

And now Ohio people are invading the South, which includes Kentucky. During the 50's and 60's everyone was moving North. Funny how it's completely changed now.