Sleeping on the Blacktop
"Appalachia" is no longer the heritage-derived place name coined by European explorers or the designation famed author Washington Irving once suggested as a replacement for North America. The word now represents systemic failure and poverty in the national lexicon. So, if politicians and media pundits insist on making Appalachia an issue every presidential election cycle to point fingers at it, they should at least correctly pronounce the word.
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