Anyone who is familiar with a drive by shooting, knows that nothing good can come out of it.  It leads to damage and sometimes killing of people.  Donesky, referring to what Jon Ed Pearce stated, believes that The Kentucky Cycle did just that.  It damaged the name of 19th Century Appalachian dwellers as well as killed their character of those people.  After the play, many viewed the region as full of people who were “mean, quaint, violent, low-down and sorry” in the words of Donesky.  That did nothing but slander those peoples names.  There were definitely some genuine and nice people in the Appalachian reason just like there were mean people in other regions.  All the play really seemed to do in many viewers eyes was further carry on the stereotypes that were already there in a negative light.  That seems to be the common theme with this region.  What makes it worse is that Schenkkan is not even from the Appalachian region.  He literally stopped by, shot it down and went on with his business.  This fits every definition of the phrase drive-by shooting.  Appalachians take the most offense to the play because they feel that he has done nothing but killed their name.