What do you think of when you think about Appalachia?

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1. Mountains

2. 16x the detail.

3. coal mining

4. I think of both the people and the mountains as well. I live amongst many from this life and I enjoy listening to them and their stories. I live in the mountains of VA at the WV border so I’ve met many who grew up here and more than welcomed my wife and I here years back. I’ve learned to really make corn bread even though I’ve been a southerner for all of my many years.

5. Trees, hillbillies, mountains, and the trail.

6. Dolly Parton

7. Home

8. Drug addiction and pale people

9. [100% this every time](https://youtu.be/pVENWl8uBeg).

10. Beautiful part of the country. Amazing area for the outdoors.

    Great cooking. Friendly people in most areas.

    You do need to be careful. There are some areas with extreme poverty and meth. Very desperate people.

11. The amazing podcast S Town.

12. Hiking

13. Where I live… although I live in the northern Appalachians of New England. I find it interesting that despite having a similar geography (but different geology and climate) the culture up here is almost nothing like that of the southern Appalachians.

14. Banjos

15. Home

16. Home

17. Trees, mountains, moonshine, music, birthplace of NASCAR.

18. Mountains, coal, small towns, and poverty and meth (unfortunately).

19. Many people Scots Irish descent, origin of blue grass, rhotic accents that may have intrusive Rs, gorgeous mountain landscape,

20. The Appalachian Trail, and the opioid epidemic.

21. Fallout 76, I played that game too much..

22. Home

23. Ballads, feuds, ghost stories, moonshine, ghost stories told by people who had to much moonshine, tough grannies, rifles, Hatfields and McCoys, swine (they let them roam semi wild because they could survive and would stay close to humans presumably because fodder was laid out). Things like that.

24. Poor white people abusing drugs.

    That’s not a dig at them. I’m a doctor and worked there for a while. It’s really, *really* bad.

    Objectively a beautiful part of the country, however, as far as landscapes go. And great hiking.

25. I live in North Georgia so I think of home

26. Family

27. College, hot girls, partying, the parkway, the waterfalls, hiking, craft beer, mountains, college

28. Country Roads, Take me Home,

29. Poverty, TVA, hollers, breaker boys, mountaintop removal, clogging, Gatlinburg, opioids, Loretta Lynn.

30. My mum has it, she wears a wig now

31. Home and bluegrass

32. Don’t go into the woods if you hear someone asking for help

33. The mountains. I live going into those mountains to hike and bike; and I can’t wait for winter to be over.