PROFILE
FROM Elizabeth Catte
Why is Appalachia so misunderstood? Elizabeth Catte is a historian from east Tennessee. People in Appalachia voted Donald Trump into office. But the popular conception of that region as a backwards, racist place is wrong, according to one historian from east Tennessee. She explains why the hillbilly narrative persists.
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