If they were to eventually be interred there, he explained, they would mark the sixth generation of his family buried in the region he called his “ancestral home”: Appalachia. Since the release of his ...

‘Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks or white trash. I call them neighbours, friends and family.’ But what do the real people of Appalachia think of Vance’s account of their homeland ...

As legend has it, two neighboring families in the backwoods of Appalachia waged a crude ... story of mountain lust and violence between “hillbillies,” the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a microcosm ...

A study of recorded music of Appalachia (hillbilly) and cowboy music collected by Joe Bussard. Collection contains tape recordings of early country music, c. 1930s, plus transciptions arranged by ...

One popular T-shirt in support of the Trump-Vance ticket read “It’s Gonna Take a Felon and a Hillbilly to Fix This,” as if the experience of Appalachian hardship afforded Vance a unique ...