Why is it okay to be bigoted against Appalachia? 🌄

Most people would take offense to publicly chastising African Africans as stupid, criminals, lazy.

But in too many quarters the same can’t be said about the Appalachian people. Jokes about Waste Virginia are just offensive, just as characterizing the state as backwards hicks, a wasteland of mostly played out coal fields.

If anything we should honoring those who work hard, are able to carve out a living in the mountains when gold jobs can be far and few between. People who are hardy and tough, self reliant and not dependent on others to make their life. Folks who understand the land, have views based on reality rather than a cartoonish, mystical view of the wilderness.