Historical Context for HillBilly Ellegy by Gracie https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2018-12-05 02:10:13 UTC 2025-07-05 16:40:08 UTC hello@padlet.com mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311205285 2018-12-05 02:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311205285 mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311206162 2018-12-05 02:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311206162 mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311206236 2018-12-05 02:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311206236 mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311206301 2018-12-05 02:30:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311206301 mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311207874 2018-12-05 02:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311207874 mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311207969 2018-12-05 02:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311207969 Children living in poverty in Appalachian Counties mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311208722 2018-12-05 02:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311208722 Drug Poisoning Deaths- US mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311212953 2018-12-05 03:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311212953 "Those who have the required work skills, the academic ability, or the simple desperate native enterprising grit to do so get the hell out as fast as they can, and they have been doing that for decades." mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311213964 Kevin D. Williamson, The Week]]> 2018-12-05 03:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311213964 How Money Laundering and Welfare Fraud Happen in some Appalachian Areas mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311215834 A common currency is chosen, soda pop for example,  then  bought with food stamps to be resold for money to launderers or for pills in the black market. ]]> 2018-12-05 03:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311215834 "There is a stillness to images favored by the press, a photographic trick that confirms a narrative of our complacency and presents Appalachia as the dominion of the barely living" mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311217187 Elizabeth Catte, What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia ]]> 2018-12-05 03:40:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311217187 “Appalachia was not different from the rest of America; it was in fact a mirror of what the nation was becoming.” mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311217521 2018-12-05 03:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311217521 mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311370229 2018-12-05 14:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311370229 mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311370565 2018-12-05 14:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311370565 mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311370879 2018-12-05 14:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/311370879 “What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. " (194) mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/317990954 2019-01-07 17:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/317990954 Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level. Yet their financial success masked their cultural unease, and if my grandparents caught up economically, I wonder i they ever truly assimilated. They always had one foot in the new life and one foot in the old one. (36) mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/317991397 2019-01-07 17:46:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/317991397 "The emotion Mom inspired then was not hatred, or love, or rage, but fear. Fear for her safety. Fear for Lindsay having to deal yet again with Mom’s problems while I lived hundreds of miles away. Fear most of all that I hadn’t escaped a goddamned thing. " (233) mary_mccooe https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/317992742 2019-01-07 17:48:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mary_mccooe/ynldtbogwa4w/wish/317992742