It was important for the media to portray appalachian life as backwardness to be able to blame someone for the troubles of the country. It was easier to make fun of so called mountain folk because of their differences. Yes these people dress different and eat differently due to the resources of the land that they live off on. These people showed how they rely on family and their own to survive. The more america modernized after the war that type of lifestyle was not seemed fit to american society. So the media portrayed these peoples as dumb and inferior because of their respective differences. Even though these people were just like them. Media portrayed these people so that people would not move to these areas and remain in the growing cities allowing cities to thrive and not country type regions. The groups that gain something from depicting appalachia like this are the city dwellers and people that want those resources that they have. These indigenous groups gain exploitation by degrading these peoples and saying that they are in fact backwards. This chapter that we read for hw is cunning and direct in the way that it depicts these problems