elizabeth catteThe votes are in — an update to “Appalachia as Trump Country”Last month, I wrote an essay about the media’s overuse of Appalachia — and particularly West Virginia — as a mythic Trump Country during…Nov 23, 20162Nov 23, 20162
elizabeth catteFor the good of the poor and common people: What Hillbilly Elegy gets wrong about Appalachia and…Over at the New Republic, Sarah Jones has a blistering take on J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, the social analysis of Appalachia’s…Nov 19, 20164Nov 19, 20164
elizabeth catteThere is no neutral there: Appalachia as a mythic “Trump Country”Of the 2016 presidential election, New York Times international affairs correspondent Roger Cohen wrote, “The race is tightening once again…Oct 17, 20166Oct 17, 20166