HR: articles

I think that frost described the situation best in a modern sense. He said that it isn’t necessarily that the people are rugged and inhospitable, it the land that is inhospitable and the land that has made the people of Appalachia a strong, resilient and independent people (Frost 311). The other side of this sword is that because of the lack of communication the society seems backward and stuck in time to many on the outside, and sometimes we even forget they exist, for example frost said “These people form an element unaccounted for by the census, unreckoned with in all our inventories of natural resources.” This is especially relevant because of the last election, Trump had promised to bring power back to the forgotten people, the coal miners, loggers and people of Appalachia and the people certainly spoke. It surprised a large segment of the population that such a large segment of society could just simply be forgotten. The independence that Mountain people have developed negative connotation in modern society. The people seem standoffish and harsh and are not friendly to outsiders. The other paper by Harney explains some of the more historical aspects of why Appalachians are the way they are and why certain things like blood feuds still exist today  however for the purposes of this prompt I think that Frost Goes more in depth with the modern perception of Appalachians