I like the idea of thinking of "Appalachian" as a "native" culture.
Even if the people of Appalachia are mostly of European ancestry genetically, the _culture_ was "born" here, as surely as any other.
I hate to say it, but I find the people here to be bone ignorant,
even about the things you might expect somebody to know about. The
only people I've met who know what fava beans are either work at the
feed store, or are from California, Germany, etc.
But if you go to an average neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY or El Cajon,
CA, the typical person there is also ignorant, indolent, biased, and
bigotted, in addition to uncultured, unrefined, and unenlightened.
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