• Influenced by the impact of multiple industries, most prominently coal mining

New Deal

• FDR's support of the working class and unions

Weakening of United Mine Workers of America, an increase of automation

• Unions have become less influential

Global rise in social conservatism

• Issues pertaining to abortions, marriages, gun rights, etc.

• Move away from more libertarian perspective

  • A perspective about, you do you and I do me. I can make my own decision

Intentional focus on job/economic issues by Republican party

• With decline of local industries, focus on where job creation/economic strategies can improve

Environment

• Legacy of extractive industry

  • Challenge of accepting/promoting resource extraction to support the economy versus environment justice perspectives

Social

• Social conservatism, perspective on individual liberties

Poverty

• Disproportionate poverty, persistent underdevelopment

Substance abuse

• Result of a lot of the factors listed above, and historic targeting of Appalachians drug manufacturers

• Represent the community at the local, state and federal levels

  • They control the passage of laws, allocation of resources, and regulation of industries central to Appalachia's economy (coal, timber, natural gas, tourism.

Lobbyist

• Advocate on behalf of industries (especially energy, mining, and healthcare), unions, or advocacy groups

  • They work to influence elected officials decisions, often amplifying the voices of corporations and powerful interests more than those of grassroots

Organizers

• Build grassroots movements that mobilize communities to push for social, economic, and environment justice

  • Provide a counterweight to lobbyist power by amplifying citizen voices and connecting local struggles to broader regional and national movements

Citizens

• Base of the political system, through voting, attending meetings, protests, and holding leaders accountable.

  
  

Elected officials -> citizens

Organizers --> Citizens

Citizens --> Elected officials

Elected officials --> Organizers

Lobbyist <--> organizers

Asian population have increased massively

The music lyrics, reference past events of violence done on people. The history and tradition recalled, where it might not be accepted in a way that is actually understood- people not really knowing what the lyrics are saying, paying attention to the melody. Singing against people who "support" him but don't actually see what he is trying to convey.

• Northern: Cayuga, Erie, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Susquehannock

• Eastern: Powhatan, Delaware (Leni Lenape), Shawnee

• Southern: Southern Iroquoian-speaking Cherokee and Tuscarora, Catawba, and the creek

• "Ancient Society, or Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery through Barbarisms to Civilization"

  • Theory of three stages of cultural evolution ("progress")

    • Savagery to Barbarism to Civilization

      • Savagery: Hunting and gathering

      • Barbarism: horticultural farming

      • Civilization: Essentially, European Society

    • Underpinned throughout by Eurocentric value judgement

• Authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes for federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders

  • Some accepted the Act, some resisted

    • The resistance from the Cherokee, led to the trail of tears

• Seneca Nation of Indians of New York

• Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of north Carolina

• Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

State:

• Cherokee Tribe of Northeast Alabama

• Echota

self identifying as having familial cultural identity of an indigenous person

Tribal nation citizenship status

• conferred via the sovereign authority of an American Indian tribe of Alaska native community

Tribal membership

• conferred by a state recognized tribe

• involved large-scale settlement and establishment of a new society "traditional" colonialism is more focused on extracting resources and exploiting labor

• Replacement and permanence

• Helen Compton said gays and lesbians "can't do what other people does. we've never been able to We never will be able to."

• Her life saving were used to start a bar where LGBTQ+ people could feel accepted

• Colonial Power/Empire

• Adaptation/Survival

• Resistance/Reform

• Nationalism/Identity

• Representation/Framing

Religion is the most distinctly Appalachian social institution.

• replaced the extended family as the core institution post- WWII

• Most persistent social institution in the region

• provides adaptation to modernization, not resistance to it

Photiadis' Structural-functional view

Argues that:

• religion stabilizes Appalachian society

• functions as a mechanism of adjustment to modern change

• religion = "social glue" holding communities together

Critiques of the prospective

• reduced religion to a tool of social stability

• ignores religions spiritual and belief

• Puritanism and "frontier faither"

• family feuds and divisiveness

• religion impeding progress

• outside interest exploit region's people and resources

  • Labor, coal, etc.

• Religion view as either:

  • Exploitative

  • resistance

• White supremacists covering their ideologies under the religious lens

• Hardworking white people (white men) illustrations (Norman Rockwell?)

  • Heroes allowed to be more racist than they can be

  • "God need men to rule- and if your have a problem with that, it is what's gonna be"

• Wanting Christian nationalism in one state

• Bordering putting Christian principles by law- no matter your religion you'd have to follow it

  • seen as restoring American heritage

• Defining the Black American's legacy on their slave heritage --> they are allowed to stay

• They denounce efforts of MLK, wanting to go back before civil rights, and saying they can't have both civil rights and American heritage --> dismissing any criticism

• disguise white supremacy in Christian Nationalism

• Nashville- Neo-Nazis taking to the streets and yelling to deport Mexicans

• Outsider people see it as something that is not American nor Christian --> with their controversial views: God made men to rule over women, it was a mistake to let women votes, democracy is horrible, and the worst thing is college educated women (base threat to America)

  • Their views are motivated by their love of the country and American history