Inaccurate impressions about Appalachian people and culture
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A family sitting on their farmhouse porch in the upper Tennessee Valley region of East Tennessee, c. 1933
The Appalachian region and its people have historically been stereotyped by observers, with the basic perceptions of Appalachians painting them as backwards, rural, and anti-progressive. These widespread, limiting views of Appalachia and its people began to develop in the post-Civil War;[1] Those who "discovered" Appalachia found it to be a very strange environment, and depicted its "otherness" in their writing.[2] These depictions have persisted and are still present in common understandings of Appalachia today, with a particular increase of stereotypical imagery during the late 1950s and early 1960s in sitcoms.[3] Common Appalachian stereotypes include those concerning economics, appearance,[4] and the caricature of the "hillbilly."[3]
^Drake, Richard B. (2001). A History of Appalachia. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2169-7. JSTOR j.ctt2jcv7t.
^The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory. University of North Carolina Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8078-3029-1. JSTOR 10.5149/9781469616704_wilson.
^ abHARKINS, ANTHONY A. (2001). "The Hillbilly in the Living Room: Television Representations of Southern Mountaineers in Situation Comedies, 1952-1971". Appalachian Journal. 29 (1/2): 98–126. ISSN 0090-3779. JSTOR 40934145.
^McCloud, Christopher Ryan (2019). "Virtual Appalachia: Video Game Representations of the Region". Appalachian Journal. 47 (1/2): 110–125. ISSN 0090-3779. JSTOR 45409275.
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