According to our recent text, the chapters suggest that the Appalachian region is being depicted as dysfunctional, unindustrialized, illiterate, and backwards. These views were in place because it was seen as a simplistic generalization of the region and the the people. This was only because the people were simply misinformed on the area as a whole. Outsiders, or people not from the region, believed these things were true based off of their evidence. Evidence included their interpretations on: the jobs such as coal mining, the education systems and schools, housing, and overall ways of living. Unfortunately, it’s not nor has it been in the interest of the people of Appalachia. Many of which, are like Stephen Fisher, who grew up not accepting were he came from because of the awful stereotypes that he didn’t want to be associated with.

It seem as though it is important for the media to depict the Appalachian region that way so that “the transformation of perception into conception is mediated through the ideas of real people with material interest of their own…”, according to Alan Banks. In other words someone had to fall into that particular category, unfortunately it’s them. Most of these perceptions on the region were shared because it didn’t match up to the way others were living.