As we know the reputation of the Appalachian people have been sort of a lower class, flirting with poverty, hard-working type of people. A lot of jobs in this Appalachian region were very labor intensive like a coal miner. The Appalachia’s are a beautiful place to be but I think that this migration differed among social classes due to priority. The main priority of this lower class was to work so that you can provide for your family by putting food on the table, clothes on their backs, roof over their heads, and etc. the middle class and upper class unlike the lower class were able to do this while focusing on things like enjoyment. The lower class moved to northern states and even in some cases the west coast for work since the industrial revolution and industrialization was going on. When the coal mines were shutting down they really did not have a choice but to move. Some managed to find take up other (illegal) jobs like moonshine making and selling (which I will talk about in my research paper). These were the exceptions that did not move immediately. I also find it interesting that then people out migrated out of the Appalachians just to get to the north and today people do the opposite, migrate from the north to the south to get out of the city. My grandfather has a house in the country and my father always told me that it was a “gold mine”. I didn’t understand it until I realized how all the northerners are migrating down and trying to buy land and property in the woods. It’s kind of reversed over the years.